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    VESSEL NAME:   Comet
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   5683
    DATE OF LOSS:  26 Aug 1875
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision  
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, 7 mi southeast of Whitefish Point
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Peck & Masters, Cleveland - 1857
    OWNER(S):      Hanna & Co., Cleveland
    MASTER:        Capt. Francis Duget, Cleveland
    TONNAGE:       621,90 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    181.16 x 29 x 12.33
     *Readmeasured Buffalo, N.Y., 1865 (182 x 29.16 x 11.16, 744.16 gross)
    CASUALTIES:    11
    
                   Downbound with pig-iron and silver ore when she was
                 struck hard on the port side by the upbound Canadian
                 steamer MANITOBA, the damage being so great that the
                 COMET sunk in a matter of minutes.

                   Large repairs at Cleveland in 1868 after being
                 sunk by collision with another vessel near Stony Island.
                 
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Sources: Annual Report of the USLSS - 1876
         Merchant Vessel List - 1874
         Port Huron Daily Times - 28 & 30 Aug 1875
         Northern Tribune (Cheboygan, MI) - 28 Aug 1875
         Detroit Free Press - 31 Aug 1875