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    VESSEL NAME:   Bavaria
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   C-72595
    DATE OF LOSS:  25 October 1898
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Manitoulin Island, south of Cape Smith
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       H. Rooney, Garden Isl., Ont. - 1878
    OWNER(S):      Fraser
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       376 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    145 x 26 x 12.5
    CASUALTIES:    none

    May 29, 1889 - Was in tow of the steam-barge D. D. CALVIN, along with
                   the NORWAY and VALENCIA, when the tow lines parted while
                   off Long Point during a gale.  The crew of BAVARIA
                   abandoned her. BAVARIA drifted ashore on Galoo Island
                   and was recovered but her crew of eight were lost. John
                   Marshall, Kingston, master; Felix Campau, Garden Island,
                   mate; John Snell, second mate; William Owens, Arthur
                   Boileau, Alexander Berry, Elias King and Bella Hartman,
                   cook. Capt. Marshall left a widow and three children.
                   Campau, a widow and eight children. Snell left a widowed
                   mother. The others were reportedly single.

    Oct 25, 1898 - Driven ashore in a gale and wrecked. No loss of life.


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Sources: The Buffalo Courier, 30 May 1889
         "Old Shipping Days in Oswego"
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899, p. 752
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan
         Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!" - 1992
         Oswego Palladium-Times, 3 November 2012