Posted by jerry on June 09, 19102 at 20:55:03:
I'm looking for any & all information on the wreck of the "Swallow" on Lake Erie circa 1854. She was on her way from Detroit to Buffalo when 20 minutes from Buffalo, she caught fire. The captain, a 'John' somebody, stayed at the helm and steered the blazing ship to safe waters where nobody, except himself died. There is a poem written about this tragedy, by a German poet, "Theodor" someone, who was born in 1819 and died in 1898, I believe.