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: Venus OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 61088 DATE OF LOSS: 4 October 1887 CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm LOCATION: Lake Huron, off Thunder Bay RIG TYPE: Schooner-barge, 2 masts HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: S. R. Kirby, New Jerusalem, OH - 1872 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: Capt. James Thompson TONNAGE: 232.33 gt, 221.19 nt DIMENSIONS: 122.8 x 27.1 x 9 CASUALTIES: 6 (all) Was bound Grindstone City to Milwaukee carrying a cargo of grindstones consigned to John Pritzlaff when she got caught up by an autumn gale and foundered. Her wreck was discovered in 2016 by shipwreck hunter David Trotter. ======================================================================== Sources: WZZM TV-13, Grand Rapids, MI, 26 October 2016 Vessel Enrollment, 1882 The Marine Record, 10 November 1887 Great Lakes Maritime Collectin, Geo. N. Fletcher Pub. Library, Alpena Co., MI