Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 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: Grace Dormer OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 10997 DATE OF LOSS: 1925 CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire LOCATION: Buffalo, N.Y. RIG TYPE: Propeller, passenger ferry & package freight HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Osman, at Buffalo - 1868 OWNER(S): Frank J. Offermann, Buffalo MASTER: - TONNAGE: 65.99 gt DIMENSIONS: 70.9 x 17.5 x 5.7 CASUALTIES: none Caught fire near the beach at the upper ferry landing at Grand Island, a marine graveyard, where she had been abandoned. Blown off course in a brisk gale and went aground on a sandbar at the head of Buckhorn Island, Niagara river, in June, 1924. Total of 29 persons (including crew) taken ashore in boats and landed at the Iroquois street dock. Sunk at Port Huron by collision with the tug FRANK MOFFATT in July, 1883. DORMER made it to the dock before settling to the bottom in 13 ft. water. No lives lost. Burned to the water's edge at St. James, Beaver Island, on July 3, 1872. Rebuilt at Port Huron. Once described as a floating palace. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 25 June 1873 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899 Buffalo Courier, 24 June 1924 Buffalo Courier-Express, 22 April 1934 Swayze, David D. "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992