Windlass on the L.R. Doty
In October of 1898, the wooden steamship L.R. Doty disappeared in Lake Michigan in a storm with seventy mile an hour winds and thirty foot waves. Her crew of 17 and two ship’s cats were lost. A group of Wisconsin divers recently discovered the shipwreck , intact and upright, in 300 feet of water off the Milwaukee shore.
Who is this ship named after? I have Doty’s in my genealogy, altho not from Chicago. Mine are Western Pennsylvania.
Here is what I have been able to find:
“The L.R. Doty was … named after Mr. Lucius Ramsey Doty, the general manager of the Cuyahoga Transit Company.”
From Brendon Baillod’s Steamer L.R. Doty Located in 300 ft of Water off Milwaukee
Any relation?
Thank you for the info it has really help me learn about the L.R. Doty thank you so much :()
that was not to be a sad face grrr 🙂