Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2020 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: Montauk OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 16403 DATE OF LOSS: 24 November 1882 CAUSE OF LOSS: Grounded in a gale LOCATION: North Manitou Island, Lake Michigan RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: George Goble, at Oswego, N.Y. - 1863 OWNER(S): Capt. Gabe Gunderson, Chicago MASTER: Capt. Gabe Gunderson, Chicago TONNAGE: 331 gt DIMENSIONS: 137' CASUALTIES: None MONTAUK was bound from Buffalo, N.Y., to Chicago with a cargo of coal. After passing through the Straits of Mackinac she was overtaken by a heavy northerly gale accompanied by blinding snow and became disoriented. Stranded off the north end of North Manitou Island. The life-saving crew was able to take all eight hands off the wreck with no loss of life. ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo (N.Y.) Morning Express - 21 November 1863 Oswego (N.Y.) Commercial Times - 16 April 1863 Oswego (N.Y.) Palladium - 1 December 1882 Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1883 Merchant Vessel Lists - 1871, '74, (not found in 1881) Finn, Leo J., "Old Shipping Days in Oswego"