The old schooner EUREKA, with the U.S. official number 116578, was wrecked in a gale on Lake Huron on November 8, 1901. The vessel waterlogged and was broken up by the seas. The crew took to a raft they had built and finally reached the shore two miles north of Kincardine, Ontario, at 6 o’clock in the morning. Unfortunately, the wife of the mate, Mrs. Arthur Baker, was swept overboard from the raft and drowned during the night. The rest of the crew was saved. The EUREKA was owned by Elizabeth Ragan of Port Huron and was originally built in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1872. Its gross measurement was 338 tons. The vessel had been engaged in the coastwise trade on Lake Huron for many years, occasionally going to Lake Erie with lumber and returning with coal. The names of the crew members were Henry Hughes, the captain from Port Huron, Arthur Baker, the mate from Cheboygan, Fred Carpenter, and James Sharkley, both seamen from Alpena. Mrs. Baker served as the cook on the vessel. The EUREKA was previously known as the British steam barge CANADA and then as the schooner SCHILDE.
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