Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 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: Nellie Mason OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 130221 DATE OF LOSS: 13 November 1905 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Erie, Cleveland, OH RIG TYPE: Schooner-barge HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Thomas Arnold, E. Saginaw, MI. - 1882 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 554.86 gt DIMENSIONS: 181 x 33.33 x 11.33 CASUALTIES: 0 Under tow of steamer LANSING, along with schooner B. W. PARKER, bound from Cleveland for Alpena laden with coal. Both were blown into the west breakwater at Cleveland and became total losses after the tow line broke. Nov. 1887 - Ashore with lumber off Presque Isle. Sept. 29, 1895 - Her crew of 7 men were rescued by Capt. John R. Glover, in command of the small tug O. W. CHENEY out of Buffalo, after the MASON was abandoned by her tow in a gale. Repairs 1896-'97 season at Alpena. ======================================================================== Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884, 1891 Marine Review, 14 January 1897 Merchant Vessel List, 1906 (losses) "Progress, Business Resources, Manufactures and Commerce of Bay City, West Bay City and Tribuary Territory" Bay City Chamber of Commerce - 1884 Beeson's Marine Directory of the Northwestern Lakes - 1901 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1904, p. 48