1878.

Events of 1878. - The season of 1878 was a good one for the regular propeller lines on account of the large amount of merchandise shipped from Eastern cities by canal and lake. For sail craft it was an unsatis- factory year. March: Schooner G. C. Breed sunk off Manitowoc. April: Brig Express sunk by collision with the steamer John A. Dix on Lake Michigan. Schooner Eagle Wing sunk off Bar Point by collision with a rock. May: Barge Lathrop sunk by collision with a tug at Lime Kiln Crossings. June: Schooner Tuscola wrecked near Glencoe. Schooners Peshtigo and St. Andrew sunk near Cheboygan. Propeller Montgomery burned at Point Edwards. July: Schooner Portage sunk off Port Rowan. August: Propeller Java sunk off Point au Sable. October: Scow Mary Garrett severely damaged by collision with propeller Blanchard. Schooner Daniel Lyons sunk on Lake Michigan by collision with schooner Kate Gillett. Steam barge Oakland sunk at Ashtabula. Schooner J. G. McGrath foundered off Long Point. The schooner Correspondent wrecked off Dunkirk. November: Barge J. H. Ritter wrecked near Ludington. Schooner D. R. Owen ashore and sunk at Manistee. Bark Woodruff went to pieces at Whitehall. Barge Erie total loss at Hamburg. Barge Isabella went to pieces at Put-in-Bay. Tugs Peck and Mystic went to pieces at Cockburn island. Schooner James R. Bentley foundered on Lake Huron, and the Schooner Aetna foundered on Lake Michigan.

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Some of the transcription work was also done by Brendon Baillod, who maintains an excellent guide to Great Lakes Shipwreck Research.