Two Fannies
Bark (or Barque) · Lost 1890 · The Lake Erie Islands
The ore bark Two Fannies sprang a leak under tow and plunged to the bottom off Bay Village in 1890; her crew escaped in the yawl just in time.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1862 at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, the 152-foot three-masted bark Two Fannies was in tow of the tug Crusader with iron ore for Cleveland on the night of August 10, 1890, when the heavy Lake Erie chop opened a leak in her hold. The pumps could not keep up, and Captain Alfred Miller ordered his six seamen and the cook into the yawl. They were barely clear of her suction when she went down with a rush. The steamer City of Detroit picked them up the next morning.
Vessel
- 1862
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- Wood
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- Sail
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Loss
- August 10, 1890
- Mechanical failure
- About five miles north of Bay Village (Dover), Ohio, in about 60 feet of water
- Lake Erie
- Escanaba, Michigan → Cleveland, Ohio
- Iron ore
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- Capt. Alfred Miller
The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Bay Village, Ohio
No pin: Ohio Sea Grant dive-slate positions are not used as wreck pins.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (80/100)
Original newspaper accounts are quoted by the source and were not independently inspected.
Ohio Sea Grant — Shipwrecks and Maritime Tales of Lake Erie: Two Fannies
Ship information, wreck site and story-of-loss sections read; quoted newspapers and books not independently inspected.
