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: Maud Preston OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 91849 DATE OF LOSS: 20 September 1898 CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire LOCATION: Lake Erie, Maumee Bay RIG TYPE: Propeller, sand sucker HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: McMillan, St. Joseph, MI - 1886 OWNER(S): Capt. Gillespie MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 175 gt DIMENSIONS: 109 x 19.4 x 6.3 CASUALTIES: none Caught fire and burned to the water's edge while towing the barge FOSTORIA. Had been transformed into a sand barge and wrecker at Toledo the previous spring. Libeled at Detroit for a $1,299.33 coal bill in December, 1894, and sold under the hammer. Another fire in August, 1892, burned her cabin and a large portion of her stern. Aground near Naubinway, Lake Michigan, in July, 1891. Owned by Ellen E. Bradley - out of Muskegon. Engaged in the fruit trade between Saugatuck and Milwaukee in 1888. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1890, 1891 R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1891 Buffalo Enquirer - 24 July 1891 Buffalo Enquirer - 26 August 1892 Oswego Daily Times - 24 December 1894 Buffalo Review - 26 April 1898 New York Times - 21 September 1898 St. Joseph Herald - 11 August 1888