Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2018 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/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Cream City OTHER NAME(s): Rhoda Emily (renamed 1913) OFFICIAL NO: 110641 DATE OF LOSS: 1 July 1918 CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded LOCATION: Lake Huron, Wheeler's Reef RIG TYPE: Propeller, bulk freight HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: John Craig, Trenton, MI - 1884 OWNER(S): James Andrews Trans. Co., Escanaba, MI MASTER: Capt. Farley TONNAGE: 570 gt, 416 nt DIMENSIONS: 166 x 32 x 12 CASUALTIES: 0 CREAM CITY and her two consorts, the GRACE HOLLAND and JOHN A. FRANCOMB, were flying light and bound for Manitoulin Island, Ont., for pulp wood when the CREAM CITY struck Wheeler's Reef, about half a mile south of False Detour Channel. A 60 mile gale was blowing from the westward at the time and, getting in the trough of the sea, her iron rudder snapped off. After waiting twenty-four hours for the sea to calm her crew went ashore to a small island where they made camp in tents for five days. CREAM CITY was badly broken up forward of the boiler house and was abandoned to the underwriters. During the great storm of 1913 the RHODA EMILY was ashore in Harbor of Refuge at Harbor Beach, MI., when a large portion of the breakwater gave way. Rebuilt by Great Lakes Engineering works, Detroit. 1885 - Aground at Cove Island. 1888 - Ashore above Point Hope 1889 - Ashore at White Rock 1896 - Sold by L. A. Hunt, Saginaw, to C. R. Jones, Cleveland 1913 - Ashore at Harbor Beach, MI 1914 - Rebuilt at Great Lakes Engineering Works ======================================================================== Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1888 Marine Record, 4 October 1888 Blue Book of American Shipping, 1903 Sturgeon Bay Advocate, 12 February 1914 Sturgeon Bay Advocate, 13 July 1918 The Sheboygan Press, 13 July 1918 The Marine Record, 10 July 1884