2 suffered a severe list as she went down, making it impossible to use two of the lifeboats. Author Dwight Boyer believed that the Marquette & Bessemer No. These injuries combined with the knives found on Steward Smith's body have resulted in speculation by different sources. : p.165 The body of Captain McLeod was found with severe slash wounds. Only five other bodies from the Marquette & Bessemer No. The last lifeboat was found in the Spring of 1910, broken in two on the rocks of the Buffalo harbor breakwater. Much of the wreckage found was washed ashore near Port Burwell, Ontario, including one intact unused lifeboat, and the buoyancy tanks from a second lifeboat. Smith was found with two large knives and a meat cleaver from the ship's galley. None of the bodies were dressed in warm clothes, suggesting that the evacuation had been hurried. The boat had held a tenth person, but that person apparently went mad, removed his clothes, and jumped overboard. 2's lifeboat #4, fifteen miles off Erie, Pennsylvania. On December 12, the Pennsylvania State fish commissioner's tug Commodore Perry discovered the Marquette & Bessemer No. Much of the woodwork was painted green, the same colour as the Marquette & Bessemer No. Davock passed through a field of wreckage without stopping, west of the tip of Long Point. 2's whistle sounding distress signals around 1:30 AM. Several Conneaut residents claim to have heard the Marquette & Bessemer No. : p.156 Shortly after midnight on December 8, the Captain and Chief Engineer of the steamer Black anchored outside Conneaut claim to have seen the profile of the Marquette & Bessemer No. One resident reported that the ship was headed directly for shore, and then turned sharply to port before heading back out into the storm. However, residents to the east of Conneaut reported seeing and hearing the Marquette & Bessemer No. The sound of the whistle soon faded away. A resident of Port Bruce, Ontario claimed to hear a steamer whistle 'so close to shore he thought one had gone aground' at around 5 AM. 2 near the Port Stanley harbor around 3 AM. A Canadian customs officer named Wheeler and other local residents claimed to hear the whistle of the Marquette & Bessemer No. The ship turned west and may have attempted to find shelter at Rondeau, Ontario. Witnesses in Port Stanley claimed to have seen the ship offshore around 6 PM, but storm conditions were too severe for the Marquette & Bessemer No. It is at this point eye-witness testimony becomes contradictory. 2 left Conneaut, and by that evening it had reached sustained winds of 75 mph. The wind was blowing out of the southwest, gusting to 50 mph when the Marquette & Bessemer No. Departure had been delayed due to an ore carrier's lines having parted in the strong winds, and it took nearly three hours before the harbor tugs had pushed the ship back against the dock. The cargo was made up of thirty loaded railway cars (26 of coal, three of steel beams, and one of iron castings). 2 departed Conneaut for its daily 5-hour run to Port Stanley. : p.151 Last trip Īt 10:43 on the morning of December 7, 1909, the Marquette & Bessemer No. 1 was known as "The Collier," as her cargo was always railway cars filled with coal. The second of two ships built for and named after the Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navigation Company, she was commonly referred to as "The Car Ferry" by the residents of Conneaut, while Marquette & Bessemer No. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16.5 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No.
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