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Loss of the Burt Barnes Affects Lake Ontario Schooners
Maritime history note recounts the 1926 loss of the 250 ton schooner Burt Barnes after a devastating September storm off False Duck Island. Crew abandoned ship near Braddock Point and were later rescued. only five schooners remained on Lake Ontario. Built 1882 at Manitowoc, it carried 210 tons of coal from Oswego to Kingston and measured 95 feet with a 24 foot beam. Captain Patrick McMannus called it the lake’s worst blow in years.
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Lake Ontario
Burt Barnes
Braddock’s Point
Rochester
George Hart
Picton
Kingston
False Duck Island
Patrick McMannus
Long Point
Summerville
Ontefhe
Phillip Haskell
Ernest Zimmerman
Edward Howard
McMannus
Manitowoc
Wisconsin
Upper Great Lakes
James Swift Coal Co
Oswego
Fair Haven
Sodus Point
Barnes
Lyman M. Davis
Julia B. Merrill
Hattie Hutt
Mary Ann Daryan
Plato