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: Julia Dean OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: - DATE OF LOSS: 6 October 1855 CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Skillagalee reef RIG TYPE: Brig HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Peck, Masters & Co., Cleveland, OH., 1854 OWNER(S): B. S. Shepherd, of Chicago MASTER: Capt. E. S. Wilson TONNAGE: 497 t. [o.m.] DIMENSIONS: 148 x 30 x 12 CASUALTIES: None mentioned JULIA DEAN was downbound from Chicago laden with wheat when she went on Skillagalee during a gale. ======================================================================== Sources: Cleveland Morning Leader, 11 May 1854 Detroit Free Press, 25 October 1855 New York Times, 3 November 1855 Pittsburgh Daily Post, 3 November 1855 Buffalo Daily Republic, 3 November 1855 Mansfield, J. B., - "History of the Great Lakes" WZZM News, Grand Rapids, MI. - 10 November 2014