NORMAN

Other names : none

Official no. : 130505

Type at loss : propeller, steel, bulk freight

Build info : 1890, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland

Specs : 297x40x21, 2304g 1861n

Date of loss : 1895, May 30

Place of loss : 4 mi NE of Middle Isl., off Rockport, MI

Lake : Huron

Type of loss : collision

Loss of life : 3

Carrying : light

Detail : Rammed amidships by wooden lumber hooker JACK (see BOTHNIA), and sank
in 180 feet of water in 3 minutes. Eyewitnesses said both vessels were running at high
speed in the heavy fog, but both denied it. Survivors were picked up from life rafts by
the small steamer M. SICKEN(qv). A very expensive salvage expedition failed to raise
her in '96.

Wreck located in 1986.

Alpena, MI

Thunder Bay Divers