Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2023 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: Peshtigo OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 19663 DATE OF LOSS: 26 June 1878 CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision LOCATION: Lake Michigan, 10 mi east of Beaver Island light RIG TYPE: Bark, 3 masts HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: T. Spears, Peshtigo, WI - 1863 OWNER(S): A. English, Chicago MASTER: Capt. Lynch TONNAGE: 385 gt DIMENSIONS: 160.6 x 33 x 12.3 CASUALTIES: 2 Bound Buffalo to Chicago with coal when she ran into the schooner ST. ANDREW, bound down with corn, sinking both vessels. The ST. ANDREW was raised and repaired but PESHTIGO was a total loss. Often called a schooner. All Merchant Vessel Lists have her as a bark (Bk). USLSS report of 1878 calls her an "American schooner". ======================================================================== Sources: Annual Report of the USLSS - 1878 Merchant Vessel List - 1871, '74, '77 Merchant Vessel List - 1881 (still shows St. Andrews 22416) The Superior Times - 13 July 1878 Port Huron Times Herald - 28 June 1878 Buffalo Morning Express - 27 June 1878 Cleveland Herald - 28 June 1878