Posted by nick nichols on September 06, 19103 at 21:17:15:
I am very familiar with the wreck of the Kate Richmond which sank right off my in-law's summer home in Lexington, Michigan. I am attaching the data I have retreived, but would very much like to get any other information which might be available. I work for Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine building destroyers for the U.S. Navy. I have come up dry on the Kate Richmond beyond the data below.
KATE RICHMOND
Other names : none
Official no. : 14038
Type at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1855, Roderick Calkins, Cleveland
Specs : 127x26x11, 240g 228n
Date of loss : 1885, Dec 5
Place of loss : about 4 mi N of Lexington, MI
Lake : Huron
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying : ?
Detail : She went ashore in a storm. The crew escaped in her yawl. Efforts were made to salvage her in '86, but were abandoned. The hulk was later burned.
She had two spent years on the bottom after sinking in a storm in 1869.
Rebuilt, 1866. Major repairs in 1863, 72. Heavily damaged by going ashore in a storm near Waukegan in Nov, 1856.
Sources: mv,nsp,slh,phr,polk,hgl,air