Shipwrecks -- Erie, Lake

 Subject

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Captain F.D. Root (1849-1925) and family history

 Collection – Volume 1
Identifier: GLMS-1967-f
Scope and Contents

Family material compiled by Shirley Root Rend-Palmer, centered on the life and career of Francis Desnoyer Root, captain of the steamer MARIPOSA and other Great Lakes vessels, with information on the Root and related Wheelock families. Includes accounts of Captain Root's actions during the shipwreck of the Steamer IDAHO on Lake Erie in 1897.

Dates: Creation: 1825-2010

In the matter of the petitions of Cleveland Tankers, Inc., as owner of the barge CLEVECO and the steamtug [sic] ADMIRAL for exoneration from and limitation of its liability

 Collection
Identifier: GLMMS-0431
Scope and Contents

Court case proceedings related to financial liability in the loss of the Cleveco and Admiral with all hands during a storm on Lake Erie on Dec. 2, 1942.

Dates: Creation: 1946

Irvin Stanley statement concerning the grounding of the steamer GEORGE STONE in Lake Erie

 Collection – Box GLMMS 37, Folder: 5
Identifier: GLMMS-2015
Scope and Contents

Handwritten statement from the First Mate of the steamer GEORGE STONE concerning its grounding in Lake Erie on October 12, 1909. After grounding, the vessel burned to a total loss with the loss of five lives.

Dates: Creation: October 1909

Materials relating to the sinking of the MARQUETTE & BESSEMER NO. 2

 Collection – Box GLMMS 47, Folder: 1-6
Identifier: GLMMS-2175
Scope and Contents

Copies of newspaper articles, genealogical data on crew members, maps, weather data, photographs, and other materials collected by Canadian attorney Robert Matthew Jones during his research into the loss of the train car ferry MARQUETTE & BESSEMER NO. 2 in December 1909.

Dates: Creation: 1909-2020

The burning of the ERIE

 Collection – Box GLMMS 26, Folder: 23
Identifier: GLMMS-0804
Scope and Contents

Narrative of a marine disaster on Lake Erie, near Dunkirk, New York, when the steamboat Erie burned resulting in loss of life of around 200 in 1841.

Dates: Creation: 1946?

"The Day the Whiskey Ship Ran Aground"

 Collection – Box GLMMS 46, Folder: 3
Identifier: GLMMS-2170
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of an article in Reader's Digest recounting the sinking of the CITY OF DRESDEN in Lake Erie, and the locals' attempts to obtain some of its whiskey cargo.

Dates: Creation: October 1974