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    VESSEL NAME:    Brightie
    OTHER NAME(s):  Sometimes seen as Brighty
    OFFICIAL NO:    2587
    DATE OF LOSS:   23 March 1923
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Foundered 
    LOCATION:       Lake Michigan, off Whitehall, MI
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner, Tow barge
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        Lafrinier & Drake, Cleveland, OH - 1868
    OWNER(S):       O. W. Blodgett, Bay City, MI
    MASTER:         ?
    TONNAGE:        600.80 gt, 570.76 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     189' x 33' x 13'
    CASUALTIES:     None of 7

                    Built as a 3 masted schooner. By 1886 her center mast
                 had been removed and she was being used as a tow barge.
                 
                    On 23 March 1923 the BRIGHTIE was bound for Muskegon
                 loaded with pulpwood, in tow of the steamer C. H. BRADLEY,
                 when she began taking on water near Little Sable Point and 
                 foundered off Whitehall, MI. The crew escaped safely with
                 the exception of one man who was reported as being
                 "seriously injured."
                    
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Sources: Chicago Tribune - 18 September 1868
         Merchant Vessel Lists - 1871, '74, '78, '81, '87, '88, '96, '97,
                                 1898, '99, 1900, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13,
                                 1914, '20
         Blue Book of American Shipping - 1906                        
         Beeson's Marine Directory - 1908                         
         Ludington (MI) Daily News - 24 August 1923
         Greenwood, John O. - "Namesakes 1920 - 1929"