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    VESSEL NAME:   City of Green Bay
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   125216
    DATE OF LOSS:  3 October 1887
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 2 mi. s. of South Haven, MI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Lambert Nau, Green Bay - 1872
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Reed
    MASTER:        Capt. P. W. Costello
    TONNAGE:       346.37 gt. 329.06 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    145 x 25 x 11
    CASUALTIES:    6 of 7


                   The CITY OF GREEN BAY, Captain P. W. Costello, was
                 bound Escanaba to St. Joseph loaded with some 675 tons
                 of iron ore when a violent storm struck her about 4
                 miles off the South Haven light. Capt. Costello ran
                 the schooner for the beach but she struck hard, broad-
                 side on, and pounded in the heavy surf a hundred and
                 eighty-eight yards from shore.
                   Through a series of grievious and lamentable errors
                 on the part of the South Haven Keeper six lives were
                 lost when the masts came crashing down and the angry
                 waves quickly demolished the schooner's hull.

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Sources: Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. I
         Merchant Vessel List - 1881, 1885
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1888
         History of Brown County Wisconsin, Vol. II