Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= USGenNet Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Olive Jeanette OTHER NAMES(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 155181 DATE OF LOSS: September 3, 1905 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior, somewhere off Huron Island RIG TYPE: Schooner-barge HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: F. W. Wheeler, West Bay City, MI - 1890 OWNER(S): W. A. Hawgood & Co. MASTER: Capt. Frank McGreevy TONNAGE: 1,271 gt DIMENSIONS: 242 x 39 x 16 CASUALTIES: 7 (all) NEWS: Buffalo Evening News, September 6, 1905 Pekuaming, Mich., Sept. 6. - The steamer Iosco will have to be added to the list of ships which foundered on Lake Superior in the great gale last Sunday, if the story told by the wreckage through wich the tug D. L. Hebard passed is well founded. Life-preservers marked "Iosco" and much other wreckage were found near Huron Island. The stem of a schooner had been thrown upon the end of Point Abbaye. The body of a sailor was found ten miles this side of Point Abbaye. It is now believed that both the steamer Iosco and the schooner Olive Jeanette which the Iosco had in tow, foundered in the vicinity of where the wreckage had been sighted. It is certain that the Olive Jeanette is lost. The light-keeper on Huron Island plainly saw a big schooner founder four miles north of the light at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. No steamer was in sight at the time. The Iosco carried a crew of 19. The Olive Jeanette carried a crew of seven men, as follows: McGreevy, Captain, Buffalo J. M. Quinn, engineer William Johnson, steward G. Bolin, seaman J. Ellison, seaman James Gelharson, seaman Charles Showman, seaman Both boats were owned by W.A. Hawgood & Company of Cleveland. The Iosco was insured for $65,000 and the Olive Jeanette for $40,000 through Smith, Davis & Co., of Buffalo. The steamer was built in 1891 and the schooner in 1890, both by F.W. Wheeler of Bay City. ---------------------------------------------- The Buffalo Express, Friday Morning, September 8, 1905 CAPTAIN M'GREEVEY'S BODY Master of the Olive Jeanette, drowned in Lake Superior, is wash- ed ashore --------- A sailor who worked on the lost schooner Olive Jeanette has identified the body washed ashore and now at L'Anse, on Lake Superior, as that of Captain McGreevy of Buffalo, master of the Olive Jeanette. The sailor has gone to Huron Bay to identify bodies there. Six bodies, one of a woman, have been washed ashore at Huron Mountain, near Pine river. Three of the bodies wear life preservers marked Iosco. One of the bodies evidently is that of George Brown, second engineer of the Iosco. The woman's body is known to be that of Mrs. W. B. Barnes, wife of the stew- ard of the Iosco. The Iosco had the Olive Jeanette in tow. The number of drowned in the storm is now said to be 40. Captain McGreevy lived at No. 240 West Utica street and is survived by a family. -------------------------------------- NOTES: The Olive Jeanette was being towed by steamer Iosco when hit by a Lake Superior storm. The pair were sighted by the steamer William A. Paine on Saturday, September 2, downbound off Stannard Rock Light. The keeper of the Huron Island light reported having seen a tow-barge about 4 miles N.E. of the island at 4:30 p.m. on September 2nd with her distress signals up. On October 5, 1898, the L. R. Doty vanished in a Lake Michigan storm while towing the Olive Jeanette. The wreck of the L.R. Doty remained "missing" until 2010 when it was discovered in 300 ft of water off Oak Creek, WI. The 1900 Federal Census of Buffalo, Erie Co., N.Y., 25th Ward includes Frank McGreevy, age 46, Lake Captain, his wife, Margaret, age 45, and two children; daughter, Frances, age 24 and son, Oswald, age 18. The census was enumerated on June 6th, 1900 and the family is residing at 2910 Main street. ======================================================================== Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes", Dana Thomas Bowen, 1952 "Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals", William Ratigan Buffalo Evening News, September 6, 1905 The Buffalo Express, September 8, 1905 1900 Federal Census, 25th Ward, Buffalo, Erie Co., N.Y. Blue Book of American Shipping, 1897 Last Update: 9 March 2016