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/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: D. Freeman OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: ? (Canadian) DATE OF LOSS: REASON: LOCATION: RIG TYPE: HULL TYPE: BUILDER: David Foster, Port Burwell - 1869 OWNER(S): MASTER: TONNAGE: 182 gt DIMENSIONS: 120 x 24 x 9.75 OA CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - Not much can be learned of this schooner. The biggest news seems to be when she went ashore in a storm in 1888. Used in coal trade. June 9, 1872 - Along with barge WM. COWIE was stuck in the locks at Port Dalhousie. Aug. 13, 1888 - Ashore seven miles west of Oswego in a storm. Got off. Sold in the spring of 1912 to Capt. Wm. Redner. Possibly for use as a floating grain storage hull. Repairs in 1881 & 82 ======================================================================== Sources: Greenwood "Namesakes 1900 - 1909" (says built 1875) Lake Vessels & Barges, 1871 House Documents, First Session, 43rd Congress, 1873-74 Lake Vessel Register, 1873 (D. Freeman built 1869 at Port Burwell) R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884, 1888 Oswego Palladium, 13 August 1888 Auburn News & Democrat, 16 August 1888 Inland Lloyds Vessel Register, 1907 Last updated 27 September 2014