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    VESSEL NAME:   Zach Chandler
    OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen as Zachariah Chandler
    OFFICIAL NO:   28020
    DATE OF LOSS:  29 October 1892
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, near Deer Park
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3-masted
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Detroit, 1867
    OWNER(S):      out of Cleveland
    MASTER:        Captain Skinner
    TONNAGE:       726.50 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    194 x 35 x 14.3
    CASUALTIES:    1 of 8

                   Bound Ashland, WI. to Cleveland in tow  of the steamer
                JOHN MITCHELL when her towline snapped in a gale. The
                CHANDLER, heavily loaded with lumber, sprang a leak and
                became water-logged. Her crew took to the yawl and, with
                the exception of crewman Frank Richter, safely made it to
                shore.

                  Built as a bark. Rebuilt as a schooner 1873.


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Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1894
         Merchant Vessel List, 1891
         Toronto Daily Mail, 11 June 1881
         Mansfield, John B. "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. 1, p. 764
         Wolff, J. F. "Shipwrecks of Lake Superior" p. 51