Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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 U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Gilbert Mollison OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 85126 REASON: Storm DATE OF LOSS: 28 October 1873 LOCATION: Lake Michigan, near the Manitou Islands RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Miller & Lefevre, Oswego - 1871 OWNER(S): Mitchell & Murray, Oswego MASTER: Capt. Joel A. Turner TONNAGE: 318 t. LENGTH: 138 ft. BEAM: 26 ft. DEPTH: 11 ft. CASUALTIES: All (8, possibly 9) SURVIVORS: 0 Cleared Chicago on the evening of October 25th, 1871 loaded with 20,022 bushels of corn and in company with several other vessels. Last reported seen on the evening of the 27th northward of the Manitous prior to a savage storm that ripped through the region. Her empty yawl boat washed ashore on the mainland southeast of N. Manitou Island on Nov. 3d. Casualties: Joel A. Turner, age 37, captain, of Scriba. He left a widow, Margaret, and 5 children: Joel (age 9), Anna (age 7) and Mary (age4); two other children born after Apr. 1, 1870. William Halliday, mate, of Scriba Judson Prosser, age 24, 2d mate, of Scriba George Halliday, seaman, of Oswego Left a wife and two children. George Messmore, seaman, Welland Canal [unknown], seaman Driscol (Halliday?, surname?), Oswego Kate Shaughnessey, of Belleville, Ontario. ======================================================================== Sources: Oswego Palladium, 8 April 1871 Oswego Palladium, Nov. 6, 7, 10, 11, 17 & 18, 1873 1870 Census, Scriba, Oswego Co., N.Y. Old Shipping Days in Oswego, J. Leo Finn, 1972 - p. 187