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    VESSEL NAME:   Mary D. Ayer
    OTHER NAME(s): Jesse Hoyt (renamed 1882)
    OFFICIAL NO:   12973
    DATE OF LOSS:  17 May 1896
    REASON:        Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Grosse Point, IL.
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Smith & Whitney, Saginaw, MI., 1854
    OWNER(S):      Ed. E. Ayer
    MASTER:        Capt. Williamson
    TONNAGE:     336.98 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  144 x 29.3 x 11
    CASUALTIES:  5
    SURVIVORS:   2

                 Collided nearly bow on with the steamer ONOKO in a dense
              fog off Grosse Point, the long jib-boom of the AYER running
              into the pilot house of the ONOKO and barely missing the
              wheelman. Later taken in tow by the steamer CITY OF DULUTH
              but sunk before they could reach shore at Racine, taking 5 of
              her crew down with her.

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Sources: The Ludington Record, 28 May 1896
         Merchant Vessel List - 1885, 1892
         Association of Lake Underwriters, 1876