SHAMROCK

Date Built: 1875
Construction: Wooden propeller, passenger & package freight
Owners: Captain James O’Connor of Tonawanda Builders: Bower & Cash at St. Clair, MI
Dimensions: 146x30x12, 403t. Cargo:

Condition: Badly broken, propeller, shaft, boiler and hull

Location: 2/3 mile off shore south of the city marina. Originally identified as the BRICKHEAD

Depth: 12'

Date of Loss: June 26, 1905

Lat/Lon: 45° 02' 58.74" /083° 25' 52.06"

Type of Loss: Fire

Loran: 30908.2/48651.4

Loss of Life: None

GPS: 45° 02.98' /083° 25.85'

Co-ordinates are informational only, they maybe inaccurate and should
NOT BE USED FOR NAVIGATIONAL PURPOSES!
On September 30, 1905 the newly rebuilt, P. H. Brickhead caught fire while at dock in Alpena. She was cut loose to drift free and burn at a safe distance from the Warf's along the Thunder Bay River. She usually carried cargo's of lumber or coal and managed, earlier in the year, to tow 6 barges with a total of 2,860,000 feet of lumber from Saginaw to Detroit.

Sources: Bedford 2000; Hoagman 1999; NOAA 1999; Stonehouse 1992; Swayze 1999; McConnell; Kauffman; Barker