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: Lyman M. Davis OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: US #15934 / 1913-1934 Canadian #130436 REASON: burned for entertainment DATE OF LOSS: 29 June 1934 LOCATION: Sunnyside Park, Ontario, Canada RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 masts HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: J. P. Arnold, Muskegon, MI - 1873 OWNER(S): Sunnyside Amusement Association MASTER: - TONNAGE: 224.97 gt (remeasured 1 May 1876 at 195.35 gt) LENGTH: 123 ft BEAM: 27.16 ft DEPTH: 9.33 ft CASUALTIES: history SURVIVORS: 0 Named for first owners, Lyman Mason and Charles Davis, the LYMAN M. DAVIS spent 39 years hauling lumber between Muskegon and Chicago, with Captain Barnes as her master for 33 of them. Built for the Mason Lumber Co. of Muskegon she had the U.S. Registry No. 15934. Remained in the lumber out of Muskegon until 1912 when sold to Graham Brothers of Kincar-dine, Ontario; also lumber trade. Sold in 1919 to McCollough & Spencer of Napanee and placed in the coal trade. Fell into the hands of Henry Daryaw in 1928, also for coal trade. Taken out of service in 1932. Sold to Sunnyside Amusement Association 1933 to be burned for what passed as entertainment. During her long career she gained a reputation for her speed, only being beaten once, in 1915, by the 3 masted schooner Hattie Hutt. At the time the LYMAN M. DAVIS was burned she was the last schooner on the Great Lakes. OUR SON foundered on Lake Michigan in 1930 and the J. T. WING was a "saltie" until purchased by Grant Piggot of Detroit and brought to the lakes in 1935. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1885, 1894 Inland Lloyds - 1907 Oswego Palladium, 27 August 1905 Oswego Daily Times, 12 May 1924 Oswego Palladium Times, 19 October 1927 Oswego Palladium Times, 17 July 1928 Oswego Palladium Times, 4 September 1931 Oswego Palladium Times, 7 April 1932 Oswego Palladium Times, 21 July 1933 Albany Evening News, 14 September 1933 Oswego Palladium, 2 February 1934 Telescope, October - November 1961 Oswego Palladium, 2 February 1934 Sherman "Beyond the Windswept Dunes" - 2003