Vessel
- Rig
- Lumber barge
- Dates
- to 1922-10-06
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingheritage
Summary
The Odd Fellow was a lumber barge that the held 1942 retrospective credits with picking up the disabled Alice K party near the Isle Aux Galets lighthouse on a Friday night in 1922.
Evidence and limits
The source supplies no registry number, owner, home port, dimensions, or additional service history. The vessel record is limited to the rescue report.
Open questions
- Can Great Lakes vessel registers or Charlevoix shipping records identify this barge more fully?
- What was the barge’s route and crew during the rescue?
See also
Sources
- Charlevoix Courier, April 8, 1942, “Twenty Years Ago,” retrospective of Wednesday, October 11, 1922.Names the lumber barge Odd Fellow as the vessel that picked up the Alice K party Friday night near Isle Aux Galets lighthouse. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 1 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Odd Fellow”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/vessels/odd-fellow-1922/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix Courier, April 8, 1942, “Twenty Years Ago,” retrospective of Wednesday, October 11, 1922..
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