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    NAME:  Belle
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO: -
    REASON: Went onto rocks
    DATE:  30 Sept 1860
    LOCATION: Lake Michigan, near Bailey's Harbor, WI
    TYPE:  Built as a 2 masted schooner, refitted as a brig in 1851
    HULL TYPE: Wooden
    BUILDER: Wm. Lent at Conneaut, OH - 1848
    OWNER:   Capt. H. Howard
             Thomas Dyer in 1851
             Sold to L. S. Ellsworth & Co., 1852 for $7,500
    MASTER:  Capt. Hall 
    TONNAGE: 276 t
    LENGTH: 111 ft
    BEAM:    26 ft
    DEPTH:    9', 10"
    CASUALTIES: -
    SURVIVORS: 

                May 12, 1851 - Dismasted on Lake Michigan and
                               refitted as a brig.
                               
                November 4, 1851 - run into by the propeller
                Delaware and towed by the Delaware to Beaver 
                Island. Loss $3,800. 
                
                September, 1853 - Lost foreyard in a gale on
                Lake Michigan, off Milwaukee.
                
                October, 1855 - Ashore in Saginaw Bay - got off.
                
                September 26, 1860 - Left Chicago bound for Buffalo
                with 11,300 bushels of corn.  Sprung her foremast
                near the Manitou Islands and began to leak.  Was
                attempting to run to Two Rivers but went on the
                rocks near Bailey's Harbor.  Vessel and cargo were
                a total loss.
                
                
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Sources: Buffalo Express, 3 April 1848
         Buffalo Daily Republic, 13 January 1853
         Buffalo Daily Republic, 21 September 1853
         Buffalo Daily Republic, 10 October 1860