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: Minnie Davis OTHER NAME(s): Almina OFFICIAL NO: 90635 DATE OF LOSS: 14 November 1892 REASON: Collision LOCATION: Lake Erie, off Bar Point RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Dakins, Port Burwell, Ont. - 1862 OWNER(S): Thomas Dunford, Port Huron, MI MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 173 gt DIMENSIONS: 92 x 22 x 10 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - Extensive repairs at Cleveland in 1881 Sunk by collision with HUNTER SAVIDGE in 21 feet of water. In Admiralty the SAVIDGE was found at fault in the collision with a verdict of $2,500 damages. Blown up as a hazard to navigation the following spring. ======================================================================== Sources: Lake Vessel Register, 1869 Cleveland Herald, 12 March 1881 Merchant Vessel List, 1890 Beeson's Inland Marine Guide - 1891, 1892 Buffalo Enquirer, 15 November 1892 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes", 1899 - p. 764