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    VESSEL NAME:   Appomattox
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   107236
    DATE OF LOSS:  2 November 1905
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Navigational error  
    LOCATION:      Atwater Beach, WI - Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:      James Davidson shipyard, West Bay City, MI - 1896
    OWNER(S):     Pickands, Mather & Co. mgrs for
                   the Boston Coal Dock & Wharf Co.
    MASTER:       Captain Frank Hebner
    TONNAGE:      2.643 gt, 2,082 nt
    DIMENSIONS:   319.8 x 42 x 23
    CASUALTIES:   None

                 Ran aground off present day Atwater Beach in
               dense fog and industrial smoke from Milwaukee 
               with her consort, the barge SANTIAGO, in tow. 
               The barge was pulled  off by tugboats but the 
               APPOMATTOX could not be freed despite repeated 
               efforts. Abandoned to the underwriters and left 
               in place where she  was broken up by November storms. 
               Machinery removed in 1919 by Reed Wrecking Company.
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Sources: Eau Claire Leader - 14 November 1905
         St. Mary's Falls Canal; exercises - Great Lakes vessels 1905
         American Marine Engineer, v.14 - January 1919
         United States Congressional serial set - issue 5125
         Electrical World, v. 28, 1896
         Buffalo Evening News - 28 & 29 November 1905
         Merchant Vessel List - 1900, 1904, 1905, 1906