Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 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 USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: John S. Newhouse OTHER NAME(s): (seen frequently as only J. S. Newhouse) OFFICIAL NO: 12764 DATE OF LOSS: 25 October 1874 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Grand Haven RIG TYPE: Barge HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Peck and Masters, Cleveland - 1856 OWNER(S): at Chicago MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 292.17 t. DIMENSIONS: 135,41 (oa) x 26.04 x 11.49 CASUALTIES: ? SURVIVORS: ? Originally built as a 2-masted schooner and brought out by Capt. James Spencer of Cleveland. In October, 1857 Capt. Spencer would leave a widow and four children when he was washed overboard during a gale when off Presque Isle, Lake Huron. October, 1856 - dismasted in the Straits. April 1858 - sailor instantly killed in fall from the rigging on approach to Chicago. November 1859 - Was among several vessels that broke from their moorings during a gale at Baffalo. Collided with a small Canadian vessel. 24 November 1860 - Driven ashore near Goderich. No lives lost. October 1862 - Aground on Saint Clair Flats. Lightered off. August 1866 - Ran into and sunk the schooner AUTOCRAT off Chicago. 1871 - Collided with schooner RUSSIAN at Chicago. July 1871 - Caught fire and scuttled at Grand Traverse Bay. Raised and rebuilt in 1873, being converted into a barge. 25 October 1874 - Driven ashore in a storm at Grand Haven and went to pieces there. ======================================================================== Sources: Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer - 1874 Merchant Vessel List - 1871, Buffalo Daily Courier, 3 June 1856 Buffalo Daily Republic, 29 October 1857 Buffalo Daily Courier, 30 October 1862 Buffalo Daily Courier, 7 August 1866 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899, p. 720