The schooner C.A. JOHNSON, owned by Capt. Henderson, struck a rock near Gros Cap around 2 o’clock in the morning on September 23, 1895, and broke apart. She was carrying a load of stone at the time of the incident. Fortunately, all the crew members were rescued and survived the accident.
The vessel C.H. JOHNSON, with a tonnage of 650 tons, went ashore on September 23, 1895. It was valued at $4,000.
The C.H. JOHNSON was a schooner with a gross tonnage of 332.47 tons and a net tonnage of 315.85 tons. It was built in Marine City, Michigan, in 1870 and had Cleveland, Ohio, as its home port. The dimensions of the schooner were 137.2 feet in length, 26.1 feet in width, and 12.0 feet in depth.
