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: Jamaica OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 13306 DATE OF LOSS: 2 August 1885 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, near Glencoe, IL RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: George Goble, Oswego - 1863 OWNER(S): Thomas Norton & Capt. Matt. Hourigan, Oswego MASTER: Capt. Matt. Hourigan TONNAGE: 218 gt DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 10 (7 crew + the captain's wife, niece and son) Caught in a severe summer storm on Lake Michigan while en route from Oswego to Chicago laden with coal. Crippled and in a sinking condition the beaten and battered schooner was run ashore a mile north of Glencoe, IL. All aboard were rescued by the Evanston life-saving crew the next day. ======================================================================== Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884 *Note: listed as a scow The Buffalo Expess, 5 August 1885 The Oswego Palladium, 5 August 1885 Finn "Old Shipping Days In Oswego" - 1972, pp. 187 Alumni Record of the College of Liberal Arts, 1903 Annual Report U.S.L.S.S. - 1886 (see url below) http://www.us-data.org/mi/glm/report/lss/an-rep-1886.txt