Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: James B. Colgate OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 77019 DATE OF LOSS: 21 October 1916 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Erie, abt. 18 miles SW of Long Point RIG TYPE: Propeller, whaleback HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: American Steel Barge Co., W. Superior, WI - 1892 OWNER(S): Standard Transit Co., Duluth, MN MASTER: Capt. Walter Grashaw TONNAGE: 1,713 gt DIMENSIONS: 308 x 38 x 24 CASUALTIES: reports vary: 22 - 25, Only Capt. Grashaw survived Shortly after midnight the JAMES B. COLGATE steamed away from the Lehigh Valley coal dock, at Buffalo, laden with coal for Fort William, Ontario. Sunk by the same storm that took down the MERIDA, MARSHALL F. BUTTERS and D. L. FILER. Capt. Gershaw spent thirty-four hours on a raft before being rescued by the carferry MARQUETTE & BESSEMER #2. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier - 25 October 1916 The Reading (PA) Eagle - 23 October 1916 Swayze, David D. "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992 Wise, James Jr., "Sole Survivors of the Sea" - 2013 Blue Book of American Shipping - 1903 Merchant Vessel List - 1904