Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Data Repository 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: Kate L. Bruce OTHER NAME(s): (none) OFFICIAL NO: 142772 REASON: Foundered DATE OF LOSS: November 8, 1877 LOCATION: Lake Huron, Thunder Bay RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 masts HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Jasper House, Manitowoc, WI - 1872 OWNER: Lendgren Brothers MASTER: Capt. Hans Hansen TONNAGE: 310 gt LENGTH: 138 ft BEAM: 26 ft DEPTH: 11 ft CASUALTIES: All (eight) SURVIVORS: 0 Disappeared with all hands on November 8, 1877 en route from Collingwood to Buffalo loaded with grain. ======================================================================== Sources: Vessel enrollment No. 119, at Chicago, IL; April 27, 1872 "Shipwrecks of the Lakes", Dana Thomas Bowen "Northern Advance", October 16, 1879 Swayze "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992