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: Siscowit OTHER NAME(s): also seen as Siscawit or Sic-co-wit OFFICIAL NO: none DATE OF LOSS: 25 December 1849 CAUSE OF LOSS: Navigational error LOCATION: Lake Superior, mouth of Chocolay River RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: ? OWNER(S): ? MASTER: Capt. Jim Bendry TONNAGE: 50 t DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: None mentioned. Her captain had taken on a cargo of oats at the Soo for delivery at Marquette. Instead of Marquette he headed her for L'Anse where he laid her up for the winter. Capt. Sam Moody and James Broadbent went on snowshoe from Marquette to L'Anse where, unwilling to allow their community to suffer for lack of the cargo, took forcible possession of the schooner and had her refitted as much as needed for the trip to Marquette. They cleared L'Anse on Christmas eve and arrived at Marquette on Christmas day. After unloading the cargo Captain Moody attempted to sail her into the mouth of the Chocolay river, but either from lack or water in the channel or too much ice (the temperature was -15°) he failed to make the river and the schooner went on the beach a few hundred feet southwest. In 1899 her hull was still buried in the sand there. ======================================================================== Sources: L'Anse Sentinel, 29 January 1899 Marine Record, 20 September 1900 Marine Review, 19 December 1901