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 U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Daniel Lyons OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 6780 DATE OF LOSS: 18 October 1878 REASON: Collision LOCATION: Lake Michigan, abt. 6 miles off Ahnapee RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast fore-and-after HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Goble & Macfarlane, Oswego, 1873 OWNER(S): George Goble & Daniel Lyons MASTER: Capt. M. M. Holland TONNAGE: 318 ton LENGTH: 146.5 ft BEAM: 26 ft. DEPTH: 11 ft. CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: - Bound Chicago to Buffalo with cargo of wheat when struck between the main and mizzen rigging on the starboard side by the schooner Kate Gillet, cutting half way through the deck. Crew was taken aboard the Kate Gillet and landed at Chicago. ======================================================================== Sources: Oswego Daily Palladium, 4 February 1873 Chicago Inter Ocean, 21 October 1878 Old Shipping Days in Oswego, p. 188