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/ ========================================================================= 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: Lizzie Doak OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 15640 DATE OF LOSS: 30 August 1892 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, 1/2 mile s. of Ludington RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Gibson, at Menakaunee, WI, 1868* (one source says Gilson at DePere, WI in 1871) OWNER(S): Capt. J. Nilson MASTER: Capt. Johnson TONNAGE: 63 gt DIMENSIONS: 75 x 20 x 6 CASUALTIES: 0 Bound Muskegon for Pullman with sawdust when she ran into a heavy northwest gale, became waterlogged and, to prevent sinking in deep water, was beached 1/2 mile south of the piers at Ludington, MI., where she was pounded to pieces by heavy seas. Crew got ashore safely in the yawl. 1869 - Reports decks and sails infested with potato bugs half way between Chicago and St. Joseph. 1889 - Stranded near Muskegon, Lake Michigan. Released. Repairs in 1880 & 1881 ======================================================================== Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884, 1888 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, 1873, 1877, 1878, 1888, 1889, 1892 Beeson's Inland Marine Guide - 1891, 1892 Milwaukee Journal, 31 August 1892 Bluffton (IN) Chronicle, 8 September 1892 Annual Report U.S.L.S.S. - 1893 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" First Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the State of Missouri, 1869 - pp. 97