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: Manistee OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 90311 DATE OF LOSS: 15 November 1883 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior RIG TYPE: Propeller, bulk freight and passenger HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: E. M. Peck, at Cleveland, 1867 for the Engleman Line at a cost of $65,000 OWNER(S): Ward Line, manager Capt. Eber Ward MASTER: Capt. John McKay TONNAGE: 561.39 DIMENSIONS: 155 x 27 x 10 CASUALTIES: 23 (nineteen crew & four passengers) SURVIVORS: 0 Lengthened 1871. New measurements 184 x 30 x 9 of 625.93 gt. Tonnage change 1873, new being 677.10 gt. Major repairs in 1879. During the winter of 1873 the MANISTEE spent 58 days ensnared in fields of ice up to nine feet thick about eight miles off Ludington. Captain Morgan and some of his crew walked across the ice, dragging a boat with them in case the encountered open waters, and landing three miles south of Ludington in order to obtain supplies. Lost in a violent storm while en route from Duluth for Ontonagon & Portage with general freight and passengers. For the next six months wreckage from the MANISTEE continued to come ashore on the Keweenaw Peninisula. ======================================================================== Sources: Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" Stonehouse & Fountain "Dangerous Coast," 1997, p. 69 Stonehouse "Went Missing Redux," Mason County Record, 26 February 1873 Ludington Record, 6 December 1883 Ludington Daily News, 15 January 2005 Last updated July 6, 2014