Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 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: Jane Miller OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 78022 (Can) DATE OF LOSS: 24 November 1881 CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered LOCATION: Colpoy's Bay, Georgian Bay RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Crop, Little Current, Ont., 1879 OWNER(S): Capt. Andrew Port (Post?) MASTER: Capt. Andrew Port (Post?) TONNAGE: 210 gt DIMENSIONS: 79 x 18 x 7.50 CASUALTIES: 28 (all) Left Owen Sound with passengers and a load of merchandise for points on the south shore of Manitoulin Island and was never seen again. The tug TOMMY WRIGHT was sent in search of her and reported finding a large amount of her wreckage. It was believed she foundered not more than a mile out of Colpay's Bay. Partial list of those lost: (NOTE: the captain's name is shown in different news articles as being PORT, POST and FORT) Andrew Fort - Captain Richard Fort - Mate Frederick Fort - Purser J. Christianson - Engineer Alexander Scales - Wheelsman Gilbert Corbett - * Left a widow and eight children. 4 unknown deck hands Entire crew said to have resided at Wiarton, Ont. The captain left a widow, two sons and a daughter. Passengers - James Walker J. Walton Lyman. Vader James Hallock James Gillespie L. Burtchart & wife 10 unknown lumber labors All above belong to the city of Owen Sound and Meaford. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser - 5 & 6 December 1881 The Brooklyn (N.Y.) Union - 6 December 1881 The New York Times - 5 December 1881 The Buffalo Evening News - 6 December 1881 The New York Sun - 6 December 1881 Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, BGSU