WTB: City of Glasgow photo
Posted: October 5, 2012, 12:16 am
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for a large photograph of the schooner "City of Glasgow," which sunk in Lake Michigan outside of Sturgeon Bay in October 1917. I have a book of Door County shipwrecks but the photo inside is much too small for my purposes. (I would like to have a print of the boat in its heyday that is large enough to frame and hang in my living room.)
Additional information about the Glasgow is below. If anyone has a photo of this boat, I'd be willing to compensate them fairly. Or if someone can just point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate that too.
Thank you,
Chris
City of Glasgow
Other names : none
Official no. : 729126
Type at loss : barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1891, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull #42
Specs : 297x41x20, 958g 958n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 6
Place of loss : E of Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying :
Detail : In tow of the tug Hunsader, she was torn loose and driven ashore in a gale. She grounded in shallow water and was soon reduced to a total wreck. The forward portion of her hull is still visible near the surface and even appears in sattellite photos.
Rebuilt and reduced to a barge in the winter of 1910-11 after suffering a major fire in 1907.
Sources: vbs,mv,lc,eas,hcgl
I'm looking for a large photograph of the schooner "City of Glasgow," which sunk in Lake Michigan outside of Sturgeon Bay in October 1917. I have a book of Door County shipwrecks but the photo inside is much too small for my purposes. (I would like to have a print of the boat in its heyday that is large enough to frame and hang in my living room.)
Additional information about the Glasgow is below. If anyone has a photo of this boat, I'd be willing to compensate them fairly. Or if someone can just point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate that too.
Thank you,
Chris
City of Glasgow
Other names : none
Official no. : 729126
Type at loss : barge, wood, bulk freight
Build info : 1891, Jas. Davidson, W. Bay City, MI hull #42
Specs : 297x41x20, 958g 958n
Date of loss : 1917, Oct 6
Place of loss : E of Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : storm
Loss of life : none
Carrying :
Detail : In tow of the tug Hunsader, she was torn loose and driven ashore in a gale. She grounded in shallow water and was soon reduced to a total wreck. The forward portion of her hull is still visible near the surface and even appears in sattellite photos.
Rebuilt and reduced to a barge in the winter of 1910-11 after suffering a major fire in 1907.
Sources: vbs,mv,lc,eas,hcgl