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Wreck of the LaFinire (1886)

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TypeShipwreck
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasIrish era

Summary

In 1886 the three-masted schooner LaFinire, carrying coal, was wrecked off Hog Island. The held source supplies no more precise wreck position.1

Evidence and limits

This Shipwreck record follows the source’s explicit “wrecked” wording, while leaving took_place_at empty because “off Hog Island” does not establish the reef or a point on the island. The only held evidence is a 1961 retrospective, not a contemporary casualty report.

Open questions

  • Can a contemporary report identify the vessel’s registry, owner, master, and crew?
  • Where exactly off Hog Island did the wreck occur, and were there survivors?

See also

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “The Changing Face of Beaver Island.” ↩

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “The Changing Face of Beaver Island.”
    Retrospective says another three-masted schooner carrying coal, the LaFinire, was wrecked off Hog Island in 1886.
    beaver_beacon · 1961-12_Beaver-Beacon