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    VESSEL NAME:    Congress
    OTHER NAME(s):  Nebraska, renamed in 1902
    OFFICIAL NO:    18093
    DATE OF LOSS:   4 October 1904
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Fire
    LOCATION:       S. Manitou Island, Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:       Propeller, steam screw
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        by Peck, at Cleveland, 1867
    OWNER(S):       John J. Boland et al., Buffalo
    MASTER:         ?
    TONNAGE:        1,320 gt, 893 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     265.5 x 35.5 x 12.9
    CASUALTIES:     None

                    As NEBRASKA:
                    While owned by Cummings, of Chicago, the NEBRASKA
                  was taken to the Milwaukee Dry Docks Co., where, under
                  a contract, she would be refitted to temporarily adapt
                  her to the carriage of passengers at the Chicago World's
                  Fair. This involved the reconstruction of decks, addition
                  of a temporary canopy, replacement of her old engines,
                  etc. The cost was upwards of $14,000! Passenger business
                  was not as lucrative as Cummings had hoped for and
                  NEBRASKA was sold by U.S. Marshall, at Chicago, for
                  $13,000 on 22 September 1893 to the Milwaukee Dry Dock
                  Co. The following spring the canopy roof used for
                  excursion purposes was removed and four gangways cut in
                  her sides while being converted into a package freighter.
                    Sold to Samuel Neff by the insurance companies in 1902
                  after lying at a dock in Milwaukee for two years follow-
                  ing a stranding in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron. Sold by Neff
                  to J. J. Bolan and others of Buffalo shortly afterward.
                  Converted for use in the lumber trade at a cost of about
                  $12,000.

                    As CONGRESS
                  On the night of 4 October 1904 CONGRESS was lying at a
                  pier in South Manitou Bay when fire was discovered. The
                  life saving crew succeeded in getting her clear of the
                  dock and other vessels, but all efforts to extinguish the
                  flames were futile and she sank in about 165 feet of
                  water at 11 o'clock the following morning. Carrying a
                  cargo of pine.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel Lists - 1903, 1904
         Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier, 5 October 1904
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1905
         Blue Book of American Shipping - 1903
         Inland Lloyds Vessel Register, 1894
         Marine Record - 3 July 1902