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    VESSEL NAME:   J. H. Tiffany
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 November 1859
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision  
    LOCATION:      Near Ile Aux Galets, Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Laffrinier & Stevenson, Cleveland, OH - 1856
    OWNER(S):      Messrs. Baldwin & Johnson, Oswego, N.Y.
    MASTER:        Capt. Monroe Turner
    TONNAGE:       371 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    5 of 10
    
                   Upbound with 364 tons of railroad iron bound
                   for Chicago. When off Ile Aux Galets the J. H.
                   TIFFANY, tacking, cut directly across the bow
                   of the downbound steamer MILWAUKEE. The resulting
                   collision took both vessels to the bottom. Fortunately
                   the propeller FREE STATE was close at hand and able
                   to pick up the survivors.
    
                   In 1874 the railroad iron from the J. H. TIFFANY
                   was recovered by the Lake Michigan Wrecking Company.
    
    
                   List of the lost:
                   Henry E. Graves, 2nd mate; from West Harwich,
                     Barnstable Co., Mass. Single, about 24 years old.
                     
                   William Thompson, cook; negro, from Chatham, C.W.
                   
                   George Smith, seaman, Norwegian hailing from Chicago.
                     Unmarried, fifty-four years old.
                     
                   James Swail, seaman; from Taylor's Point, a few miles
                     north of Chicago. Unmarried, twenty-one years old.
                     Was to be married at the end of this trip. His 
                     wedding suit had been procured at Oswego.
                     
                   John Lupton, seaman; Englishman. Unmarried, about
                     twenty-five years of age. No regular home. Last
                     hailed from Halifax, N.S.


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Sources: Buffalo Daily Republic - 5 December 1859
         Detroit Free Press - 2 December 1859
         Detroit Free Press - 23 August 1874
         J. B. Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. I, 1899