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: James Davidson OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 75786 DATE OF LOSS: 4 October 1883 REASON: Fog LOCATION: Thunder Bay Island Reef, Lake Huron RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: James Davidson, Bay City, 1874 OWNER(S): Robert Jenks, St. Clair, MI MASTER: Capt. H. G. McQueen TONNAGE: 1456 gt LENGTH: 230 ft BEAM: 37 ft DEPTH: 19.6 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 18 Bound from Buffalo to Duluth, loaded with coal and towing the schooner-barge MIDDLESEX, stranded on Thunder Bay Island Reef. The MIDDLESEX was freed and was on her way the next day. Attempts were made to save the DAVIDSON over the next 24 hours but a gale with heavy seas had set in and the crew was taken off by the Thunder Bay Island Life-Saving crew and the DAVIDSON was abandoned to the seas and the underwriters. ======================================================================== Sources: Mansfield, "History of the Great Lakes," Port Huron Daily Times, 22 June 1874 Merchant Vessel List, 1884 Stonehouse, "A Short Guide to the Shipwrecks of Thunder Bay," p. 54 Annual Report of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, 1885