Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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: Titan OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 24149 DATE OF LOSS: 5 November 1869 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, near Pentwater RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Gobel & Crockett, Oswego, N.Y., - 1856 OWNER(S): R. C. Rounsawell, Chicago MASTER: Samuel Holford, Port Dalhousie TONNAGE: 361 gt DIMENSIONS: 131.9 x 25.8 x 12 CASUALTIES: 8 SURVIVORS: 1 Left Chicago on Thursday, November 3rd, with 17,643 bushels of wheat for Buffalo. The following night she was struck by a squall which left her foresail and jibs in strips. When about six miles south of Pentwater she cast both her anchors but began to drag about an hour later and was blown ashore where she went to pieces very quickly. The only survivor, John Purshaw, of Conneaut, Ohio, had shipped just before the TITAN left Chicago. In June, 1871, W. B. Putney, the light-keeper at Pent- water, discovered a note in a bottle buried in the sand. The note was signed by Byron Bensen, Williamston, Mich., who claimed to be aboard the TITAN and that she was sinking. Victims (partial list) Samuel Holford, captain Henry Bunce, mate, Kingsville, Ohio ======================================================================== Sources: Misc. Documents of the House of Reprentatives, Vol. 1431, 1869-1870, Disasters on the Lakes East Shore News (Pentwater, MI), 9th June 1871 Oceana Times (Oceana county, MI), 12th November 1869 Finn "Old Shipping Days In Oswego", p. 190 Inland Seas, Vol 47 (1991), p. 18 & 23 Last upated 15 July 2014