Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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: Magellan OTHER NAME(s): ? OFFICIAL NO: (C) DATE OF LOSS: 9 November 1877 CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered LOCATION: Lake Michigan, off Two Rivers, WI RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Shickluna, St. Catherines, Ont - 1873 OWNER(S): Isaac Cockburn, Toronto, et. al. MASTER: Capt. John Belyea, St. Catherines, Ont. TONNAGE: 330 gt DIMENSIONS: 137 x 23 x 11.66 CASUALTIES: 8 [all] Found sunk a few rods from the piers at Two Rivers. A severe storm had raked the area the night before and later reports from Chicago stated that the schooner had been in collision with one of the city bridges before departing. Some of the bodies came ashore in a mangled condition. Some came ashore in pieces causing speculation was that she had been run down by another vessel and focus centered on the steamer JOSEPH L. HURD, which had appeared in port with a damaged bow and reported passing through parts of a wreck. The MAGELLAN'S owners hired Capt. James F. Allen, of Kingston, to examin the wreck. Although the Chicago Inter- Ocean openly charged that the MAGELLAN was cut down by the HURD, Capt. Allen was of the opinion that she broached to, or in rounding to, shipped several heavy seas which broke in her cabin and washed out her stern. The MAGELLAN was bound Chicago to Toronto with corn. ======================================================================== Sources: Quebec Daily Telegraph, 16 November 1877 Cleveland Herald, 15 November 1877 Oswego Palladium, 13 & 19 November 1877 Buffalo Courier, 22 November 1877 Oswego Daily Times, 5 December 1877 Great Lakes Vessels Online Index - BGSU