Guido Pfister – Schooner 1873-1885 (SHIPWRECK)

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LAKE DISASTERS. — In North Bay the schooner PFISTER, of Milwaukee, corn laden, lays on the beach full of water. The TWO FRIENDS (Canada vessel) grain loaded, is also on the beach, full of water. The schooner LEM ELLSWORTH is also on the beach, light, and not injured. Schooner FLORETTO, lumber laden, sunk. T.Y. AVERY, foresail gone. Schooner NAIAD, big anchor and rudder gone. Schooner MONTAUK, the bowsprit, jibboom and quarter gone; fouled with the GEORGE MURREY. DAVID VAN VALKENBURG, masts all gone.   

 

Kingston Whig-Standard 
October 23, 1880 
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The large schooner GUIDO PFISTER, which suffered such serious damage at the lower end of Lake Michigan during the terrible gale of October 16, 1880, that the owners abandoned her to the underwriters, has been disposed of by the latter, as she lies in Manitowoc harbor, for $18,000 or thereabouts. The purchaser is E. B. Smith, of the firm of Smity & Davis, insurance agents of Buffalo. 
Cleveland Herald 
Tuesday, March 8, 1881. 

Schooner G. PFISTER. U. S. No. 85304. Of 694.27 tons gross; 661.46 tons net. Built Manitowoc, Wis., 1873. Home port, Buffalo, N.Y. 
Merchant Vessel List, U. S., 1884

Glided into the Rocks
 
 
She was coasting into position behind a tug when the latter lost her towline and the PFISTER glided into the rocks, where she became a total loss. Abandoned in place and later covered over with fill, her remains were dynamited when the present entrance piers were built. – Source: David D. Swayze & http://greatlakeshistory.homestead.com 
 
Guido Pfister Background Trips
 
Great Guido Pfister Article – Zenith City Press
 
MN historical Society Shipwreck Map

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