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    VESSEL NAME:   Acme
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   107039
    DATE OF LOSS:  15 April 1902
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Ontario, off Buffalo
    RIG TYPE:      Steam Screw, tug, tow boat
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Buffalo, 1893
    OWNER(S):      Great Lakes Towing Company
    MASTER:        Capt. H. H. Vrooman
    TONNAGE:       58 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    60.8 x 17.0 x 9.6
    CASUALTIES:    0 of 4

                   Left Buffalo at 5 o'clock with the steamer WILKESBARRE,
                of the Lehigh Valley Line, in tow. The ACME was picking a
                passage through the ice floes when she ran into a big
                clamper. The tug tried to back off but was held tight as
                the WILKESBARRE, unable to stop, struck the ACME upon the
                port quarter and rolled her over. Hope for recovering her
                was given up in August when divers reported her to be a
                total wreck. Valuation $12,000; insurance, none.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901
         Buffalo Evening News - 16 April 1902
         Buffal Courier - 5 August 1902