Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 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: John Raber OTHER NAME(s): General Worth, given new name 1882 OFFICIAL NO: 10150 DATE OF LOSS: 30 September 1895 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, RIG TYPE: Schooner, built as a brig. HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Wm. Treat, Euclid (or Cleveland), OH - 1848 OWNER(S): C. A. Barker, Chicago MASTER: Capt. Andrew Johnson TONNAGE: 223.67 t. DIMENSIONS: 116.7 x 25.1 x 10.0 CASUALTIES: 1 Lumber laden, the JOHN RABER waterlogged and went ashore in a storm off Whiting, IN., on 30 September 1895. She had been seen by the tug C. W. ELIPHICKE a few hours before standing to the south under sail. No distress signals were seen and the schooner appeared to be all right at that time. Capt. Andrew Johnson was drowned while trying to reach shore for help. The crew were rescued by the South Chicago life savers. The wrecked schooner was towed in and tied up at a tree at Belmont avenue. The RABER, with its keel resting in the silt of the river bottom, was still there in 1898 when plans were being made to clean up the river. If she were able to be patched enough to float she may have been taken out to the lake and sunk. Waterlogged and generally wrecked off Barcelona on November 3, 1867. Entire crew (7 or 8), including her owner and master, Capt. Thomas Richardson. Towed to the Erie Basin by tugs TILLINGHAST and GARDNER. Likely rigged as a schooner following this wreck as she is noted as "formerly brig" in 1871. Collided with the propeller BUFFALO off Waukegan in September, 1881. Little damage to BUFFALO but the GENERAL WORTH was shattered stem to stern. Towed into Milwaukee by BUFFALO ======================================================================== Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 9 November 1867 Board of Marine Inspectors, 1871 Daily Argus News, Crawfordsville, IN., 2 October 1895 Record of American and Foreign Shipping - 1897, '98, '99, 1900 Chicago Tribune, 14 October 1898 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1891, 1893 Mansfield, J.B. "History of the Great Lakes," Vol I, p. 655