It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Story of the Loss of the Three-Masted Lakes Schooner, St. Peter, in 1898 and Her Rediscovery Seventy-Three Years Later
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16 pp. An exhibition at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, March 26 through September 15, 1975. "St. Peter is a historic Great Lakes schooner that shipwrecked in Lake Ontario near Pultneyville in Wayne County, New York. She was built in 1873 and measured 135.7 feet in length, 26.0 feet in beam, and 12.1 feet depth of hold. At the time of her sinking on October 27, 1898, her hold was filled with 607 tons of "chestnut coal."[2]"