Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Dacotah (sometimes found as DAKOTAH) OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: - REASON: Storm DATE OF LOSS: 24 November 1860 LOCATION: Lake Erie, between Evans Center & Eighteen Mile Creek, N.Y. RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Luther Moses, Cleveland, OH., 1857 OWNER(S): James F. Clark, Dean Richmond & F. M. Hale New York Central Railroad MASTER: Capt. Wm. S. Cross TONNAGE: 698 t LENGTH: 193 ft BEAM: 30 ft DEPTH: 12 ft CASUALTIES: 24 SURVIVORS: 0 The DACOTAH left Buffalo on Friday, November 23rd, in company with the propeller ACME, with her cargo hold packed with 282 tons of general merchandise for delivery at Chicago and Milwaukee. They were both opposite Dunkirk when the weather turned ugly, blowing a strong gale with blinding snow. The ACME put back to Buffalo but the DACOTAH kept on, being last seen by the ACME about three miles above Dun- kirk. At about 9 p.m. on Saturday, the 24th, the DACOTAH struck a reef, close to shore, a mile above Sturgeon Point. Shouts were heard during the night by members of the Bennett family. The family searched for an hour but, finding nothing, decided they must have been mistaken. Mrs. Bennett sent her son out to search again in the morning and he found portions of the wreck, including the entire starboard side resting some 20 feet from the water. Wreckage and cargo was strewn along the beach for several miles, along with the life-boat, in nearly perfect condition. Passengers included part of the crew from the propeller MARQUETTE, which had been laid up in Buffalo, on their way home to Chicago. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 3 July 1857 Buffalo Daily Republic, 26 & 27 November 1860 History of the Great Lakes, edited by John Brandt Mansfield