Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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: Empire State OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: (C)7816 DATE OF LOSS: 8 November 1877 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Huron, near North Point, Thunder Bay RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: L. Shickluna, St. Catherines, Ont., - 1862 OWNER(S): J. D. Rothwell MASTER: Archie McHenry TONNAGE: 317 gt DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: 0 Downbound with iron ore for Cleveland when she struck. Her crew spent the night in the rigging and were taken off by two fishermen in a clinker boat the next day. ======================================================================== Sources: Oswego Daily Times, 14 November 1877 Report of the Chief Signal Officer, 1878 Chicago Inter Ocean, 3 July 1878 Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899 Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!" - 1992