Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 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: Dorcas Pendell OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 157124 DATE OF LOSS: 5 January 1914 CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Harbor Beach RIG TYPE: Barge HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: D. Pendell, East Saginaw - 1884 OWNER(S): at Buffalo MASTER: - TONNAGE: 407.79 gt. 389.29 nt DIMENSIONS: 148 x 30.9 x 11 CASUALTIES: 0 Strong off shore wind fanned flames that were thought to have started by an overheated stove in the shipkeepers quarters. The PENDELL was lying in only four feet of water where she was driven by the great gale of the previous November. In 1904 fire broke out on the PENDELL which started while men were tarring the decks. Her cabin and upper works were burned off. ======================================================================== Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1888 Blue Book of American Shipping - 1897, 1903 Inland Lloyd's - 1907 Marine Review, Feb. 1914 (Losses) Merchant Vessel List - 1885, 1895 Buffalo Evening News - 13 May 1904 Detroit Free Press - 6 January 1914