Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2021 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: Dot OTHER NAME(s): Mary Merritt (Canadian) renamed 1882 OFFICIAL NO: (US) 157078 DATE OF LOSS: 25 August 1883 CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered LOCATION: Lake Superior, off Grand Marais RIG TYPE: Schooner, (built as a bark) HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: L. Shickluna, St. Catherines, Ont., 1865 OWNER(S): Capt. W. Jones, et. al, Cleveland MASTER: Capt. A. C. Smith (part owner) TONNAGE: 300 t DIMENSIONS: 139 x 23 x 11 CASUALTIES: 0 The schooner DOT, ore laden from Marquette, was in tow of the steam barge M. M. DRAKE when she began taking on water and was abandoned at about 1 p.m. while off Grand Marais. Her crew was taken aboard the M. M. DRAKE. She was spotted by the barge CHARLES WALL at 4 p.m., which approached the DOT and found her deserted, with mizzenmast gone and weather side bulwarks carried away. Originally owned Canadian, as the MARY MERRITT, she went ashore and was wrecked near Grand Marais on September 12, 1881. Released by Capt. S. B. Grummond (or perhaps Capt. Mark Swain with the tug WINSLOW) and taken to Detroit where she was finally sold by the U.S. Marshal to satisfy the wrecking charges. Her subsequent repairs did not amount to three- fourths of her value, the amount of which was required by law to transfer her citizenship. American papers were not granted until the amount of the wrekcing bill was included in the total. She was finally renamed on September 15, 1882, and became the American schooner DOT. ======================================================================== Sources: Detroit Free Press - 24 September 1881 Detroit Free Press - 25, 28, 29 August 1883 Canadian List of Vessels - 1873