Vessel
- Eras
- Irish era
- Concepts
- shippingmaritimeshipwrecks
Summary
The LaFinire was a three-masted schooner carrying coal when it was wrecked off Hog Island in 1886, according to a December 1961 local retrospective.1
Evidence and limits
The source gives no registry, owner, master, crew, exact date, or exact wreck position. “Off Hog Island” is retained as the source’s wording and is not silently converted into a wreck on Hog Island Reef.
Open questions
- Can a contemporary casualty report identify the vessel and its exact loss location?
- Was the source’s spelling “LaFinire” the vessel’s registered name?
See also
Sources
Footnotes
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Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “The Changing Face of Beaver Island.” ↩
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “The Changing Face of Beaver Island.”Retrospective identifies the LaFinire as a three-masted schooner carrying coal that was wrecked off Hog Island in 1886.