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: Saltillo OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: - DATE OF LOSS: 25 November 1853 CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision LOCATION: St. Clair River RIG TYPE: Brigantine HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Sackett's Harbor - 1847 OWNER(S): J. R. Huguinn, Chicago MASTER: ? TONNAGE: 240 t (om) DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: none mentioned. Sunk near the rapids following a collision with the schooner TRADE WIND. Years later efforts were made by divers Harrington & Phillips to raise the old wreck but were abandoned in August, 1869. Work to salvage her cargo of railroad iron began in 1872. She had been run into and sunk on the St. Clair Flats by the propeller MANHATTEN in 1847. Possibly built as a brigantine and later changed rig. Available records and newspaper accounts show her as a schooner. ======================================================================== Sources: Pentwater News, 13 June 1873 The (Utica) Daily Gazette - 1 December 1853 Buffalo Courier & Republic, 28 August 1869 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser Directory - 1849 Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"