Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2018 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: Walter L. Frost OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 80973 DATE OF LOSS: 4 November 1903 CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded LOCATION: South Manitou Island, Lake Michigan RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Detroit Dry Dock Co., 1883 OWNER(S): Rutland Transit MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 1,322 gt DIMENSIONS: 235.7 x 36.9 x 12.9 CASUALTIES: None of 21 Ran aground during a thick fog. An overnight storm caused her to pound heavily and spring a leak forward, whereupon she was scuttled to prevent her from going to pieces. Her cargo was jettisoned but Heavy weather prevented her being towed off and a storm on the 10th broke her in two. Bound from Chicago to Ogdensburg with corn, three car loads each of vinegar and leather, misc. freight. ======================================================================== Sources: Beeson's Marine Directory - 1904 Annual Report U.S.L.S.S. - 1904 Detroit Free Press - 6 & 15 November 1903 Merchant Vessel Lists - 1887, '93, '96, '97, '98, '99, 1900 R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884, '91 Beeson's Marine Directory - 1898