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: Julia B. Merrill OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: (US 75478) (Can 126468) DATE OF LOSS: 30 June 1931 CAUSE OF LOSS: Burned as a spectacle LOCATION: Lake Ontario, Sunnyside Beach Amusement Park, Toronto RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: G. Carpenter, Wenona (West Bay City), MI - 1872 OWNER(S): W. H. Peacock & Co., Port Hope, Ont. MASTER: - TONNAGE: 200 gt, 190 nt DIMENSIONS: 125.5 x 26.5 x 8.2 CASUALTIES: 0 Once part of a great lumber fleet, the JULIA B. MERRILL was sold Canadian in 1910 and taken to Lake Ontario in 1910 for the coal trade. Under new ownership her condition deteriorated until she was past the point of repair. In early 1931, after sinking at her dock at Port Hope, she was sold to Sunnyside Amusement Park to be burned as a public spectacle for their entertainment. ======================================================================== Sources: Blue Book of American Shipping, 1897 Merchant Vessel List - 1881, 1907 Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register, 1907 Buffalo Courier, 12 March 1910 Oswego Palladium-Times, 17 July 1928 "Old Shipping Days in Oswego"