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    VESSEL NAME:   Acme
    OTHER NAME(s): Music, renamed 1892
    OFFICIAL NO:   90671
    DATE OF LOSS:  14 October 1893
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, near Black River, MI
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Cameron,, New Jerusalem, OH - 1874
                   Charles H. Ward master builder
    OWNER(S):      R. H. Royes, Michigan Log Towing Co., Saginaw, MI
    MASTER:        Dorin Elliott
    TONNAGE:       320.46 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    124 x 24.5 x 12
    CASUALTIES:    none


                   The tugs ACME and RELIANCE, towing 4,500,000 feet of
                logs, were caught on the open lake in a savage northwest
                gale that swept the lakes for two days. The pair abandoned
                the raft of logs and were running for shelter when the ACME
                foundered. Her crew were rescued by the RELIANCE. This same
                gale wrecked over a dozen vessels inlcluding the big
                propeller DEAN RICHMOND off Dunkirk, N.Y.


                   Built for Capt. Eber B. Ward as a passenger vessel and
                put on the Petoskey to Mackinaw line. Accommodations for 75
                passengers. Her life as a passenger vessel didn't last
                long. The year following her launch (1875) found her
                engaged to tow on rivers.  Once used as a wrecking tug by
                James Reid.



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Sources: Vessel Registration, 23 September 1874
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 31 July 1874
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884
         Buffalo Evening News, 11 November 1893
         Rock Island Daily Argus, 16 October 1893
         The Weekly Expositor, Brockway Centre, MI - 20 October 1893
         Merchant Vessel List, 1892
         Parker, Jack "Shipwrecks of Lake Huron" - 1986
         Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!" - 1992