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 U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Charles C. Griswold OTHER NAME(s): also seen as only C. C. Griswold OFFICIAL NO: 4385 DATE OF LOSS: 27 November 1872 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior, between Grand Marais and the Two Hearted river. RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: A. Bradley, Vermllion - April, 1854 OWNER(S): A. Chesebrough, Detroit MASTER: Capt. James M. Hand TONNAGE: 354 t. LENGTH: - BEAM: - DEPTH: - CASUALTIES: All hands (8) SURVIVORS: 0 Left Marquette loaded with iron ore and was overcome by a violent storm. Wreckage found the following June. James M. Hand, age 50, left a widow, Patience M., and 3 children: Jennie, age 22; Austin, age 16; Elmer, age 11. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1871 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 12 June 1873 History of the Great Lakes, Mansfield, 1899; p. 646 Shipwrecks of Lake Superior, J. F. Wolff; p. 21 1870 Federal Census - Portland Twp., Sandusky Co., OH - pg 169B