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    VESSEL NAME:   Clipper City
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   4347
    DATE OF LOSS:  1893
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Abandoned for age and condition
    LOCATION:      North branch of the Chicago river
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, clipper-type, 2 masted topsail
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       William W. Bates, Manitowoc, 1854
    OWNER(S):      C. A. Sirborn, Chicago (last owner)
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       126 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    102 x 27.8 x 7.5
    CASUALTIES:    none


                   Sunk in the north branch of the Chicago river in 1893
                and became a hazard to navigation. Towed out into the lake
                on June 8, 1896 by the tug TOM BROWN and beached at the
                foot of Chicago avenue.where she became part of the land-
                fill needed for the Lincoln Park extension.

                   When built in 1854 she was the lake's first center-
                board shallow-draft schooner. Some say she was the schooner
                which jumped over the Chicago breakwater in 1882. Others
                say that honor belonged to the MARY E. COOK.


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Sources:  Chicago Tribune, 14 August 1898
          Merchant Vessel List - 1889
          R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1891
          The Nautical Gazette, Vol 136 - 140. 1946, p. 140
          Detroit Free Press, 11 June 1896
          Chicago Daily Tribune, 9 June 1896
          Chicago Daily Tribune, 14 August 1898
          Chicago Tribune, 4 October 1998
          Wenstadt, Tom "Freighters of Manitowoc" - 2007