Shipwrecked on the Bruce Coast: Eleven Lives Lost in Tragic Lake Huron Disaster

31 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and ads. This booklet tells the story of the schooner-barge, Severn, and the steam barge, Africa. describing their sailing careers, and eventual demise in 1895. These two vessels were lost on the Lake Huron coast of the Bruce Peninsula, north of Southampton, as the Severn was towing the Africa. Captain Silversides and his crew (Severn) were fortunate enough to make shore, but those aboard the Africa were not so lucky.