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    VESSEL NAME:    Aldebaran
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    312
    DATE OF LOSS:   2 October 1876
    REASON:         Storm
    LOCATION:       Lake Erie, ashore 25 miles from Point au Pelee
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner
    HULL TYPE:      Wooden
    BUILDER:        Ketchum - Huron, Ohio, 1852
    OWNER(S):       Owned in Buffalo
    MASTER:         -
    TONNAGE:        251.35 gt
    DIMENSIONS:     ?
    CASUALTIES:     0
    SURVIVORS:      -

                    Torn loose from her moorings while loading railroad
                 ties at Coatsworth's dock and driven ashore west of
                 there, sideways to the beach.  Beaten to pieces by a
                 storm on October 5.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1867, 1875
         Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer - 1877
         Buffalo Courier, 6 October 1876