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            TWELVE WORST MARITIME DISASTERS IN GREAT LAKE HISTORY
                    (based on number of casualties)

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5. Atlantic:  Collision with the Ogdensburg
   Location: Lake Erie, off Long Point
   Date: August 20, 1852
   Casualties: about 150-250*

   Type: sidewheeler
   tonnage: 1,155
   Length: 267 ft.
   
  

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   Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes" , Dana Thomas Bowen, 1952
            "Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals", William Rattigan, 1977