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    VESSEL NAME:   Mary Collins
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   16394
    DATE OF LOSS:  6 October 1900
    REASON:        Stranded
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 1/2 mile east of Little Harbor
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       at Ashtabula, Ohio - 1857
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Herman Schuenemann
    MASTER:        Capt. Herman Schuenemann
    TONNAGE:     261.95 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  132.82 x 27.51 x 10.70
    CASUALTIES:  0
    SURVIVORS:   -

                Named for Mary (Harmon) Collins, daughter of Albert
             and Miranda (Cunningham) Harmon, widow of Charles Collins.

                Sailed her high and dry on the shore in a fog when a
             kerosene lamp in the upstairs window of a cabin was mistaken
             for the light on the South Dock at Thompson, Michigan.  She
             sunk in fairly shallow water and no lives were lost although
             the schooner could not be saved.  The insurance had expired
             on October 1st and the loss to Capt. Schuenemann was $5,000.
             He brought his Christmas trees to the Clark street bridge at
             Chicago on the schooners Ida and F. Moss that year.
             
                Rebuilt from her water line in 1863.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel Lists
         Detroit Free Press, 1 October 1857
         Detroit Free Press - 10 October 1900
         Mansfield, "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. 1, p. 811
         American Florist, Vol. 16, 1900 - p. 628
         Marine Review, Vol. 34, 1906 - p. 40
         Upton & Cutler, "History of the Western Reserve" p. 1252
         Bourie, "Many a Midnight Ship" p. 203
         Pennington, "The Historic Christmas Tree Ship" p.17
         Orr, "Lumberjacks and River Pearls" p. 16