Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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: Mary Collins OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 16394 DATE OF LOSS: 6 October 1900 REASON: Stranded LOCATION: Lake Michigan, 1/2 mile east of Little Harbor RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: at Ashtabula, Ohio - 1857 OWNER(S): Capt. Herman Schuenemann MASTER: Capt. Herman Schuenemann TONNAGE: 261.95 gt DIMENSIONS: 132.82 x 27.51 x 10.70 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - Named for Mary (Harmon) Collins, daughter of Albert and Miranda (Cunningham) Harmon, widow of Charles Collins. Sailed her high and dry on the shore in a fog when a kerosene lamp in the upstairs window of a cabin was mistaken for the light on the South Dock at Thompson, Michigan. She sunk in fairly shallow water and no lives were lost although the schooner could not be saved. The insurance had expired on October 1st and the loss to Capt. Schuenemann was $5,000. He brought his Christmas trees to the Clark street bridge at Chicago on the schooners Ida and F. Moss that year. Rebuilt from her water line in 1863. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel Lists Detroit Free Press, 1 October 1857 Detroit Free Press - 10 October 1900 Mansfield, "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. 1, p. 811 American Florist, Vol. 16, 1900 - p. 628 Marine Review, Vol. 34, 1906 - p. 40 Upton & Cutler, "History of the Western Reserve" p. 1252 Bourie, "Many a Midnight Ship" p. 203 Pennington, "The Historic Christmas Tree Ship" p.17 Orr, "Lumberjacks and River Pearls" p. 16