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: Monitor OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 16432 DATE OF LOSS: 25 September 1898 CAUSE OF LOSS: Sunk suddenly LOCATION: about a mile and a half east of Round Island, north side of channel RIG TYPE: Lighter HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: J. G. Shaler, Conneaut, OH - 1862, as a bark OWNER(S): Soo Lighter & Wrecking Company MASTER: Capt. W. R. Smith, Marine City, MI TONNAGE: 314 gt DIMENSIONS: 139.12 x 26.41 x 11.81 CASUALTIES: 5 Was being towed to a sheltered place in Waiskai Bay after lightering 350 tons of iron ore off the stranded schooner CARRINGTON when a rumbling sound was heard forward and the MONITOR went down quickly, bow first. Five men managed to escape and climb into the rigging before she sunk. Five were trapped below where they had been asleep. Described as being a "rotten old tub." Through her years she had been a bark, a three-masted schooner, a barge, and a lighter. In November, 1883, she was driven ashore on North Manitou Island where her crew of five men and one female (cook) suffered fourteen hours before being rescued by the revenue cutter ANDY JOHNSON. Victims of 1898 sinking: Joseph Prior, Soo William Corbiere, Soo John Robeare, Soo Emmanuel Robeare, Soo John Foley, West Bay City All said to be longshoremen. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier - 3 July 1862 L'Anse Sentinel - 1 October 1898 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, '74, '78, '95, '96, '97, '98 Marine Record - 22 November 1883 Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan