The vessel
Show on the chart- Type
- Wood Barge
- Also known as
- Built as a steam powered freighter City of Paris in 1891. Renamed th C.W. Jacob in 1914
- Built
- 1891 at West Bay City, Michigan by James Davidson
- Size
- 298' x 41' x 21'
- Gross tonnage
- 2140
- Net tonnage
- 2058
- Owner
- Lake Chelan Steamship Company , Cornelius-Boland Line 1925 owned by Hammermill Paper Company
- Cargo
- Coal
- Date lost
- April 27, 1933
- Cause of loss
- Storm
- PHMC site number
- 36ER0336 ( http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/ )
Position 42.19800, -79.97783 (as charted by RSC, from the Regional Science Consortium shipwreck map)
Recorded location: 42.198, -79.97783 Off 12 Mile Creek near North East in approximately 60 feet of water