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    VESSEL NAME:   W. W. Arnold
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   26166
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 November 1869
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, mouth of Two Heart River
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 mast (one source says 3)
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       H. J. Williams, Buffalo, 1863 (some sources say 1865)
    OWNER(S):      J. D. Bothwell, Cleveland
    MASTER:        Captain Homer Beardsley
    TONNAGE:       426 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    10-12 (all, most sources say 11)
    SURVIVORS:     0

                   Left Marquette, MI., on 4 November 1869 loaded with 550
                tons of iron ore for Cleveland and was overtaken by a
                severe northwest gale that ripped her to pieces.  There was
                no immediate concern for her safety as she was only six
                years old, had an experienced captain and crew and was
                considered to be a sturdy vessel.  Marine men felt that she
                had likely tucked in somewhere for shelter but, as the days
                turned into weeks, it became painfully obvious that she and
                her crew had become victims of the storm.  It wasn't until
                December 9th that the bodies and wreckage of the schooner
                were discovered near the mouth of Two Heart River.  The
                storm had been so severe that wreckage and her smashed yawl
                was found thrown high up on the forty foot sand banks.

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Sources: Boyer "Ships and Men of the Great Lakes," 1977, p. 31
         Swayze "Shipwreck!," - 1992
         Stonehouse "November: The Cruelest Month," - 2010
         Bohnak "So Cold a Sky," - p. 292
         Great Lakes Maritime Database - University of Michigan
         Telescope, Vol. 8 - 1959
         House Documents, Vol. 265, 1870 - p. 34
         Beardsley "Genealogical History of the Beardsley Family
                    in America," - 1902
         Merchant Vessel List - 1869


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