"a. Brig., F. B Gardner (1854-1866)*"
"b. Bark, F. B. Gardner (1866-1872)"
"c. Schooner, F. B. Gardner (1872-1904)"
"Flood, James, (1854-1855); Childs, C., (1857-1858); Carey, W., (1861); Morgan, N., (1865-1866); Baker, G. O., (1867-1872); Gibbs, J., (1874-1877); Foster, J., (1879); Williams, William, (1884); "
" Gardner, F. B., (1854-1858); Lind, L., (1857); Dickey, H. T., (1861);; Gardner, F. B., (1864-1866); Merrill, J. D., (1867); Elkins, H., (1868-1872); Elknis, H., (1874); Weinert, W., (1877); Halsted, K. S., (1879); Connelly, John, (1884-1899); Pringle, John C., (1902-1904); "
"1. 12/00/1855, Chicago, ashore on a bar and scuttled, raised, $800 loss;2. 5/00/1856, Strawberry Reef, Green Bay, ran on a rock, sank and raised;3. 5/00/1857, lost bob-stays in a gale and repaired; 4. 8/00/1858, Pensaukie, Lake Michigan, ran on her anchor and repaired, $300 loss;5. 9/00/1859, damaged her cargo of wheat in a gale, $200 loss;6. 5/00/1860, Chicago, collision, (Schooner, Sasco), repaired, $100 loss;7. 9/00/1860, Saginaw Bay, lost a man overboard;8. 11/24-25/1860, near Buffalo, drove ashore in a gale opposite Tift's farm, released, $4,000 loss;9. 11/00/1860, Lake Huron, lost a man overboard;10. 5/00/1861, off Port Washington, Lake Michigan, collision, (Schooner, St. Lawrence), repaired, $100 loss;11. 6/00/1867, Chicago, collision and repaired, $200 loss;12. 7/00/1869, off Bailey's Harbor, damaged by collision, (Schooner, St. Lawrence), and repaired; 13. 9/15/1904, 7 miles above Sanilac, Michigan, Lake Huron, and 2.5 miles from shore, caught on fire and sank; "
"1. Master Abstracts: Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Port Huron, Michigan; 2. Enrollment: Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Port Huron, Michigan; 3. John Poole's notes;4. Chicago Daily Press: 5/00/1857; 5. Buffalo Morning Express: 1/11/1856, 3/11/1861;6. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser: 1/15/1859, 3/11/1861, 1/22/1862;7. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:8. Captain J. W. Hall, Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869:9. Wright's Master Sheet;10. U.S. Merchant Vessels: (1868-1905); "