Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Joseph S. Fay OTHER NAMES: - OFFICIAL NO: 75315 REASON: Foundered DATE OF LOSS: 19 October 1902 LOCATION: Lake Huron, off Forty-Mile Point RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Quayle & Martin, Cleveland, 1871 OWNER(S): Bradley fleet MASTER: Capt. Charles A. Fletcher TONNAGE: 882.31 gt (changed 1876 to 1220.96 gt) LENGTH: 215.50 ft BEAM: 33.50 ft DEPTH: 14.66 ft CASUALTIES: 1 SURVIVORS: 13 Owned: 1871 - Alva Bradely, H. Fay, Capt. Geo. Stone, et al. Some Incidents: - June 1874, grounded at Saint Clair Flats. - 1880, Collison with Ontonagon at Port Huron. - Feb. 1884 - Dry dock. New shaft, sternpipe, engine, refastened & recaulked. Old engine sold by Globe Iron Works. - 9 Sept. 1885, Ashore at Presque Isle, corn, loss $3,000. - May 1886, grounded, released with no damage. - Sept 1887, aground at Toledo, released. - Sept 1895, hard aground off Star Island Reef, near Toledo. - Dec. 1896, stranded at Scott's Point. October 19, 1905 - ashore at Forty Mile Point, Lake Huron, during a vicious winter gale and broken to pieces. Mate Joseph Syze was the only casualty of 14 persons aboard. Three generations of shipmasters: Capt. Merwin S. Thompson, Jr. (1900 - 1901) Capt. Merwin S. Thompson, Sr. (1880 - 1882) Capt. George Stone (1871 - 1875) The Thompson family can be found on the 1880 Federal Census, 15th Ward, Cleveland, OH Microfilm Reel# T9-1008, Enumeration District 46, Page# 115A Residence: 72 Kinsman St. The Stone family is found, on this same census, living next door to the Thompson family on Page# 114D enroute from Escanaba, MI to Ashtabula, OH ======================================================================== Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes" , Dana Thomas Bowen, 1952 The Marine Record, Cleveland, OH 1880 Federal Census of Cleveland, OH