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    VESSEL NAME:   Kate Bully
    OTHER NAME(s): (spelling var. of Bully - Bulley, etc.)
    OFFICIAL NO:   (Canadian - no #)
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 October 1869
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Little Point Sable
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       J. Bully, Corunna, Ont. - 1868
    OWNER(S):      McKenzie, at Sarnia
    MASTER:        Capt. H. L. McGlashen
    TONNAGE:       300 t
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    6
    SURVIVORS:     3 - 4

                   Was bound Buffalo to Chicago with railroad iron
                when she capsized in a storm off Little Point Sable,
                Lake Michigan.  Four of the crew rescued by schooner
                BLACK HAWK and taken to Milwaukee.  
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Sources: 41st Congress, 2d Session, Disasters on the Lakes, 1869
         Port Huron Daily Times, 15 October 1869
         Canadian Lake Underwriters, 1869

Last updated 15 December 2014