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: Consuello OTHER NAME(s): sp. var. Consuelo OFFICIAL NO: 4572 DATE OF LOSS: 9 November 1887 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Huron, near Port Hope, MI RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: R. Caulkins at Cleveland, 1851 OWNER(S): Chamberlain MASTER: - TONNAGE: 142 gt DIMENSIONS: 103 x 22 x 10 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - If not for bad luck...... 1 September 1854 - damaged cargo of wheat in gale. 1854 - Collision with schooner A. FORD December 1862 - Damaged hull by striking pier at Conneaut, OH 10 May 1866 - First mate, George Trenta, lost overboard and drowned. September 1866 - Leak caused by striking a rock. Repaired at Detroit. May 1869 - Struck bridge at Toledo and sunk. Raised and repaired. Oct 1871 - Ashore on Lake Ontario with cargo of iron ore bound for Cleveland. Sept 1874 - Ashore at Fighting Island; collision with tug ADMIRAL FARRAGUT at Toledo Nov 1874 - Storm damage on Lake Erie. 1 May 1875 - Cargo of block stone shifted during a gale causing her to capsize & sink off Marblehead, OH. Raised and repaired. 5 lives lost including: H. M. Hauser, captain - Milwaukee Wm. Clary, seaman Wm. Low, seaman Charles Peterson, seaman female cook - Buffalo Survivors: Frederick Donahue & James King Nov 1883 - Damaged by pounding on piers at Sandusky 14 May 1884 - Ashore on Bois Blanc Island, lightered & got off. 9 Nov 1887 - Ashore in storm near Port Hope. Abandoned by crew and broken in half. Total loss Rebuilds in 1861, 1869 & 1882 ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1871, 1884 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 23 May 1861 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 26 Jan 1863 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 26 Sept 1866 House Documents, Vol. 265 - p. 7 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 21 Oct 1871 Marine Record, 15 Nov 1883 Toronto Daily Mail, 15 May 1884 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes," Vol. I, 1899 - p. 741 O'Connell "Ohio Lighthouses," 2011 - p. 57 Donahue "Schooners in Peril" - p. 17-18 Last updated 3 August 2014