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    VESSEL NAME:   Aurania
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   107186
    DATE OF LOSS:  29 April 1909
    REASON:        Ice
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, Whitefish Bay. off south end of
                   Ile Parisinenne
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Chicago Shipbuilding Co., - 1895
    OWNER(S):      Aurania Transit Co. (Corrigan Fleet)
    MASTER:        Capt. Robert C. Pringle
    TONNAGE:      3,218 gt
    DIMENSIONS:   352 x 44.2 x 21.9
    CASUALTIES:   0
    SURVIVORS:    number of crew not stated

                  AURANIA was on her first upbound trip of the season
               with her holds full of coal when she, along with several
               others, were trapped by heavy ice in Whitefish Bay. Ice
               crushed in her sides and she began leaking rapidly.  The
               crew climbed down to the ice and made their way to the J. H.
               BARTOW which was also trapped in the ice three miles
               distant.

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Sources: Annual Report of the Steamboat Inspection Service - 1910
         Greenwood "Namesakes 1900 - 1909", p. 106
         Buffalo Evening News, 1 May 1909
         Beeson's Marine Directory of the Northwestern Lakes, 1909 - p. 35
         Institute for Great Lakes Research, Perrysburg, OH


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