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    VESSEL NAME:   Acontias
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   1394
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 October 1887
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, Presque Isle, MI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Jas. Baker, Oswego - 1856
    OWNER(S): 
    MASTER: 
    TONNAGE:      264 gt
    LENGTH:       137 ft
    BEAM:          26 ft
    DEPTH:         11 ft 
    CASUALTIES:   0
    SURVIVORS:    not stated
    
                  While under tow of the steam-barge ELFINMERE,
               bound Cheboygan for Toledo with lumber, encountered
               a strong northeast gale accompanied by blinding snow
               and heavy seas.  The steamer put hard to starboard
               with the intention of heading the tow into the wind
               but ran too close to the shoreline and the tow line
               was either cut or parted.  The ACONTIAS and another
               tow, the schooner A. H. MOSS, went ashore and became
               a total loss.  The Admiralty court held that the
               ELFINMERE was at fault for not keeping further out
               into the lake.

                  *Note: Merchant vessel lists say she was built at
              Detroit in 1866 but this was a rebuild.  She is found
              in newpaper accounts dating from 1856.
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Sources: Finn, "Old Shipping Days in Oswego," - 1972
         The Federal Reporter, vol. 39, p. 909 - 911
           Dist. Court, E.D. Michigan, 1 November, 1888 - Admiralty