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    VESSEL NAME:   Colorado
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   4267
    DATE OF LOSS:  19 September 1898
    REASON:        Smoke
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, Eagle River
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Buffalo, N.Y., 1867
    OWNER(S):      William F. Bottsford, Port Huron
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       1470.55 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    254.6 x 35 x 13
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     not stated

                   Bound Duluth to Port Huron with flour when she ran into
                almost every sort of vile nastiness that Lake Superior has
                to offer.  Smoke from an "unknown source," dense fog and a
                northwest gale served to blind her, shake her about and
                cast her upon the notoriously dangerous reef at Eagle River
                where she rested right on top of the wreck of the steamer
                H. S. PICKANDS which had wrecked there in 1894.  After
                three days of lightering her cargo the COLORADO broke up
                and became a total loss.


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Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1900
         Merchant Vessel List, 1885
         The Milwaukee Journal, 19 September 1898
         Buffalo Evening News, 27 October 1910

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