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Re: Lady Elgin

Posted: October 26, 2021, 11:40 am
by Rob
It's a beautiful etching of the Lady Elgin.

Re: Lady Elgin

Posted: October 25, 2021, 4:50 pm
by BigRiver
Sorry, I posted the picture. I didn't read the text carefully and thought it referred to the passenger ship. I have deleted the photo

Re: Lady Elgin

Posted: October 25, 2021, 1:48 pm
by Jared
Yes it was the wrong boat pictured.

Re: Lady Elgin

Posted: October 25, 2021, 11:50 am
by Rob
So this was a mispost of the photo...

Re: Lady Elgin

Posted: October 23, 2021, 6:24 pm
by Jared
Correct. A Canadian scow-schooner was built in 1882 in name of the same deceased wife of Lord Elgin.

Lady Elgin

Posted: October 23, 2021, 3:02 pm
by Rob
Todays "Today in Great Lakes History" has a wonderful engraving of the steamer Lady Elgin. However, the text cites a scow schooner named Lady Elgin that went ashore a mile north of Goderich, ON in 1887. Seeing as the Lady Elgin disaster that killed a bunch of people took place in Lake Michigan in 1860, I'm assuming the really beautiful engraving was posted in error.