Proceedings of a meeting, and report of a committee of the citizens of Cleveland, in relation to steamboat disasters on the western lakes

By Michigan Historical Reprint Series

Subjects: Lake Erie, Disasters, History, Steamships

Description: This report covers the June 1850 burning of the steamboat “G. P. Griffith” with loss of 275 lives only a few hundred yards offshore near Cleveland. It also includes information about burnings, sinkings and collisions of steamboats throughout the Great Lakes from 1830 to 1850, with the committee’s recommendations for safety requirements.