Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 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: Grace G. Gribbie OTHER NAME(s): Cheen(e)y Ames, renamed in 1899. OFFICIAL NO: 125239 DATE OF LOSS: 26 April 1902 CAUSE OF LOSS: Ice LOCATION: Lake Erie, off Point Pelee RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3-mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Clyde Lummeree, Youngstown, N.Y. - 1873 OWNER(S): G. H. Beck, et. al. MASTER: Capt. Thomas Wilson TONNAGE: 298.40 DIMENSIONS: 136.16 x 26 x 10.75 CASUALTIES: 3 Bound Ashtabula for St. Ignace with coal when holed by an ice flow. Third mast added in 1889. Libeled for wreckage and towing charges of $1,000 by Thompson Towing and Wrecking Association in 1898 and sold at auction to Patrick Myers. ======================================================================== Sources: Greenwood, John O. "Namesakes 1900-1909" - p.20 Marine Record, 17 November 1898 Merchant Vessel List - 1900 Marine Record, 1 May 1902