Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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: Peoria OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 19668 DATE OF LOSS: 11 November 1901 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Bailey's Harbor, WI RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: A. Gillman, Black River, Ohio - 1854 OWNER(S): Capt. M. G. Bonner MASTER: same TONNAGE: 166 gt LENGTH: 112 ft BEAM: 24 ft DEPTH: 8 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 6 Was loaded with 100,000 feet of hardwood lumber from East Jordan bound for Chicago when a heavy southwest gale set in. Both anchors were thrown out when inside the harbor but failed to hold. Crew of six rescued by the life-saving service. Was also wrecked and declared to be a total loss in the "Alpena Storm" of 1880 when her crew spent all one night and most of the next day hanging in the rigging before being rescued by the schooner CONWAY. ======================================================================== Sources: Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes, 1901, p. 11 "History of Lorain County, Ohio," p. 215 Blue Book of American Shipping, 1897 Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1898 Ludington Chronicle, 16 November 1901 Boyer, "Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes," p. 181 Neuschal, "Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships," p. 121-127