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: Jenny Lind OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 12716 DATE OF LOSS: 21 May 1883 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, at Chicago RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Smith & Elihu M. Peck, at Ohio City (Cleveland), 1848 OWNER(S): Capt. Anderson & L. Peterson, at Chicago MASTER: Capt. John Anderson TONNAGE: 110.98 t. DIMENSIONS: 100 x 20 x 8 CASUALTIES: 4 SURVIVORS: 1 Built as a schooner, converted to a barge by 1871 and later converted back to a schooner. Bound to Chicago from Muskegon with a cargo of slabs. Upon reaching Chicago during a northeast gale she anchored close inshore. Became water-logged and attempted a run for South Chicago Harbor but struck a bar and capsized, broadside to the heavy seas which crashed down upon her breaking her to pieces. The Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S (1884) states that she was considered unseaworthy at the time of loss. Also seen as built by DeGrote. ======================================================================== Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1884 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, 1884 Marine Record, 26 May 1883 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 21 April 1848 Mansfield, "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899 Swayze, "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992 Ehle, "Cleveland's Harbor: The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority" - 1996 Bowlus, "Iron Ore Transport on the Great Lakes" - 2010