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/ ========================================================================= 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: Racer OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 21189 DATE OF LOSS: 17 November 1869 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Hammond's Bay, Lake Huron RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: B. B. Jones, Buffalo - 1856 OWNER(S): J. M. Lundy & Capt. Gilbert Hearns MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 257 gt. DIMENSIONS: 130 x 28 x 3 CASUALTIES: none mentioned Downbound from Marquette laden with iron ore first lost her canvas on Lake Superior, then grounded in a gale and totally wrecked at Hammond's Bay. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1869 Buffalo Daily Courier, 1 May 1856 Detroit Free Press, 24 November 1869 The Republican, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., 30 November 1869 House Documents, Vol. 265, 1870 - p. 25