Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2020 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/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Jarvis Lord OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 75499 DATE OF LOSS: 17 August 1885 CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered LOCATION: Manitou Passage, Lake Michigan RIG TYPE: Propeller, Steam barge, bulk freight HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Morley & Hill Shipyard, Marine City, MI - 1872 OWNER(S): J. W. Moore, Cleveland, OH MASTER: Capt. Richard Neville TONNAGE: 770.97 gt, 641.06 nt DIMENSIONS: 178.3 x 32.6 x 18.0 CASUALTIES: 0 Bound from St. Ignace to Chicago with a load of iron ore when she sprang a leak and began taking on water so rapidly that the pumps couldn't keep up. The crew abandoned her in the small boats and succeeded in making Glen Haven, MI. The JARVIS had been in a collision with the schooner E. P. ROYCE about three weeks before off Skillagalee. There was no apparent damage to the LORD as she took the much damaged schooner in tow and left her at Milwaukee. ======================================================================== Sources: Port Huron Daily Times - 29 November 1872, 19 August 1885 Buffalo Daily Republic - 19 August 1885 Merchant Vessel Lists - 1874, 1878, 1881, 1885 Marine Record - 30 July 1885 R. L. Polk Marine Directory 1884