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    NAME: City of Winnipeg
    OTHER NAME(s): Annie L. Craig
    REASON: Fire, total loss
    DATE:  July 19, 1881
    LOCATION: Lake Superior, Duluth harbor
    TYPE: propeller
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: Linn & Craig, at Gibralter, MI - 1870
    OWNER: Canada Lake Superior Transit Company
    MASTER: 
    TONNAGE: 889 gross
    LENGTH: 184.25 ft
    BEAM: 31.58 ft
    DEPTH: 12.08 ft
    REBUILDS: 1878 (tonnage 1211 gross)
    CASUALTIES: 4
    SURVIVORS: 

                          A Steamer Burned
                   THE CITY OF WINNIPEG A TOTAL LOSS 
                       FOUR OF THE CREW LOST
                   DULUTH, Minn., July 19 - At about
                 three o'clock this morning the second
                 engineer of the propeller City of
                 Winnipeg of the Collingwood line dis-
                 covered flames issuing from the fire
                 hold.  He at once gave the alarm and
                 applied the fire apparatus but in an
                 incredibly brief time the entire ves-
                 sel was enveloped in a sheet of flame.
                 The boat had just arrived and was
                 moored at the Northern Pacific dock.
                 The Duluth Fire Department promptly
                 responded to the alarm but the fire
                 had gained such headway that their
                 efforts to save the boat were un-
                 availing.  Purser Crawford at once
                 awoke the passengers and assisted
                 them to the warehouse.  Many of them
                 escaped by climbing down the sides
                 of the rigging.  Four of the crew
                 are lost, and one fireman, one 
                 porter, and two waiters.  The vessel
                 was fully insured.
                     Times, Orillia, Ont., July 21, 1881
                

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Sources: Huron Institute Papers and Records, Vol. I
         news article: Times, Orillia, Ont., July 21, 1881