Posted by Dave Gilchrist on October 15, 19100 at 06:33:07:
In Reply to: Stewart H. Dunn posted by Taliah on October 09, 19100 at 21:55:23:
The following info is from Dave Swayze's Wreck List. Hope it is helpful to you. This would probably not be anywhere near the Hamilton & Scourge as these are known to be in quite deep water.
Regards,
STUART H. DUNN
Other names : built as schooner WILFRED R. TAYLOR, renamed 1888
Official no. : C72964
Type at loss : schooner-barge, wood, 3-mast, built as schooner
Build info : 1877, G. Dixon, Marysburgh [Milford], Ont.
Specs : 164x26x13, 535gc 458nc
Date of loss : 1920, Jul 4
Place of loss : at Port Dalhousie, Ont.
Lake : Ontario
Type of loss : foundered
Loss of life : ?
Carrying : ?
Detail : Foundered in harbor after colliding with a pier. Recovered, but, due to age, was not returned to service. Stripped and resunk in the lake in 1925
Driven ashore in 1888 & rebuilt as DUNN. Reduced to a barge about 1910. Registered out of Montreal.
Built as "timber drougher," with ports for large timbers at her bow & stern. She was reportedly the last schooner on the lakes to carry a square foretops'l
Sources: mmgl,is(1-64),ns3,h,tfgl,osdo,win,mpl
David Gilchrist
Niagara-on-the-Lake