Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Fayette Brown OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 9748 REASON: Collision DATE OF LOSS: 4 June 1891 LOCATION: Pelee Passage, Lake Erie RIG TYPE: Schr HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Stevens & Presley, Cleveland, 1868 OWNER(S): M. A. Bradley, Cleveland MASTER: Capt. Halstrum TONNAGE: 555.35 gt LENGTH: 178.5 ft BEAM: 31.3 ft DEPTH: 12.8 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: On June 4, 1891, the schooner FAYETTE BROWN was bound Portage Entry for Buffalo with a cargo of brownstone blocks. Normally the BROWN would have been in tow of another vessel but, on this occassion, was sailing alone. At 2 a.m., when 9 miles east of Dummy Light- house, she was run down by the propeller NORTHERN QUEEN, bound for Duluth with coal, and quickly sunk in 60 feet of water. One crewman of the BROWN was quick enough to jump onto the NORTHERN QUEEN, the remainder barely had time to make the schooner's cross-trees before she went down. They were rescued by the upbound steamer ROBERT MILLS. Accusations that the propeller failed to render aid to the schooner's endangered crew came fast and furious. These were quickly rebutted by Capt. Smith of the NORTHERN QUEEN but was likely not believable as the following January the Northern Steamship Company agreed to pay the Bradley estate $25,500 for the loss of the FAYETTE BROWN and her cargo. The FAYETTE BROWN was valued at $16,000 and rated A2. Later removed as a navigational hazard. In 1886 the FAYETTE BROWN had a narrow escape on Lake Michigan while in tow of the SELAH CHAMBERLAIN. The CHAMBERLAIN was run down by the propeller JOHN PRIDGEON, JR., and was sunk within 15 minutes. ======================================================================== Sources: Detroit Free Press, 5 June 1891 Marine Review, 27 January 1892