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    VESSEL NAME:   Acme
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 November 1867
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm  
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, mid-lake, 15 mi. N.N.E. of Dunkirk
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       G. Hardinson, Buffalo - 1856
    OWNER(S):      Western Transportation Co.
    MASTER:        Capt. Dickson
    TONNAGE:       762 t (om)
    DIMENSIONS:    190 x 33 x 12
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   Overwhelmed by a Lake Erie gale. When her machinery
                 became disabled  she quickly filled with water and sunk.
                 Her crew escaped in her three life-boats.

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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 5 November 1867
         New York Tribune, 9 November 1867
         Detroit Free Press, 17 November 1867
         Vessel Enrollment - 1856
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes," Vol. I