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    VESSEL NAME:    W. W. Brigham
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    26363
    REASON:         Storm
    DATE OF LOSS:   28 August 1884
    LOCATION:       Lake Michigan, off Muskegon in mid-lake
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner
    HULL TYPE:      Wooden
    BUILDER:        At Dunkirk, N.Y., abt. 1848
    OWNER(S):       Capt. James O'Leary
    MASTER:         (same)
    TONNAGE:        94 gt
    LENGTH:         90 ft
    BEAM:           25 ft
    DEPTH:           7 ft
    CASUALTIES:      0
    SURVIVORS:       5
    
         Oct. 1854 - Aground and sunk in harbor at Dunkirk.  Raised
                     and repaired.

         Aug. 1855 - Collision with schooner E. C. Williams on Lake Erie.
         Nov. 1855 - Sunk near Buffalo harbor.  Raised and repaired.
         Mar. 1862 - Received a new deck at Milwaukee
         
         Sep. 1871 - Leaking on arrival at Milwaukee.  Sent to dry dock.
         Dec. 1871 - Lost deckload of lumber on Lake Michigan.
         
        Fall  1881 - Aground at Manitou Island.  Repaired at Milwaukee.
              
                 Left Muskegon with lumber bound for Chicago on August
              27th, 1884.  Ran into a summer squall and became water-
              logged.  Crew was rescued by the schooner WALTER SMITH,
              Capt. Tho's Smith in command, after spending 4 days on
              a makeshift raft with no food.

                 Reported in error as a total loss on Lake Michigan
              in September, 1866.
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 Sources:   The (Buffalo) Democracy - 18 October 1854
            Buffalo Daily Republic - 21 November 1855
            Buffalo Daily Courier - 20 March 1862
            Detroit Free Press - 22 December 1866
            Merchant Vessel List, 1869
            Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes - 1871
            Port Huron Daily Times, 1 September 1884
            "History of the Great Lakes," Vol. I, Mansfield - 1898            
            "Beyond the Windswept Dunes", Elizabeth Sherman - p. 37