- Date
- 1909-11-13
- Kind
- Shipwreck
- Where
- South Fox Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshipwrecksheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
A 1949 looking-back column reports that the wrecking tug Ottawa went to the steam barge Falcon, grounded on South Fox Island on 13 November 1909; the date and details remain retrospective until checked against the 1909 issue.
Evidence and limits
Everything here comes from a page of the Charlevoix County Herald, 18 November 1949. It looks back 40 years, so the detail is recollection until the 1909 paper is read. That is why the record is filed unverified.
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Open questions
- Does a second source from 1909 report the same thing?
- Do the people or the vessel named here leave records of their own?
See also
Sources
- Fox corpus context SHA-256 cc02d28fe686e6f30aeeb05987875d31ea1f1d7420d566426f8ca4ac4e4dfc17. A 1949 looking-back column reports that the wrecking tug Ottawa went to the steam barge Falcon, grounded on South Fox Island on 13 November 1909; the date and details remain retrospective until checked against the 1909 issue. This record preserves reported or retrospective status and does not add unnamed participants, coordinates, or outcomes.
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Grounding of the steam barge Falcon at South Fox Island, 1909”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/falcon-grounding-at-south-fox-1909/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix County Herald, 1949-11-18..
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