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      It was finally decided to rebuild her, and on her first trip after the rebuild she was wrecked near Point aux Pins, Lake Erie, October 14, 1886, a permanent total loss.

      Unbelieveably, a photo appears on-line of the same board of inspectors at another inspection earlier in the same month as this one. Dig those whiskers! Click here. From left: Capt. Robert T. Bradford, Rear Admiral James E. Jouett, Commander Henry C. Taylor (captain of U.S.S. Trenton), Chief Engineer Philip Inch, …

      *Purchased from the Edwards family. **De Rivera established at this time the first vinyards on the islands. Grapes and wine have since become a major industry of the area. Ohio State Parks concurs with the basics of this article regarding South Bass and the other islands: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/lakeerie.htm. For location map, …

      I'm not certain of the relationship between this Edmund Fitzgerald and the namesake of the famous freighter (who was chairman of Northwestern Insurance Co., the owner of the boat), but the 20th century Edmund had his roots in Port Huron, so there probably is one.

      The names of the contractors who brought 28 carpenters from Maine to build the new vessel at Clark's dry dock this winter are Elbridge Soule and Albert Wick, of Bath, Que.

      *Knights of Labor - click HERE for the story

      North Fox is in northern Lake Michigan about 40 miles east of Petoskey, Michigan, and 42 miles north of Glen Haven.

      Can't identify this boat.

      The new Scots-built passenger ship ALGOMA (C#85766) was driven shore and broken up by a gale near Greenstone Island, Isle Royale, Nov. 7, 1885. More than 35 people died in the disaster to the luxury Canadian Pacific liner.

      Probably J. H. HACKLEY, US#75671, 45 t., a long-time Chicago tug.

      The SUTTON (US#157010) was built by Buffalo tugmeister George Notter as a yacht. She was 54 feet in length, 10½ feet beam and only 4½ feet depth, so she could probably sail uphill on wet grass.