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    VESSEL NAME:    Asa Covell
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    398
    DATE OF LOSS:   6 June 1869
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Explosion 
    LOCATION:       Cleveland, OH
    RIG TYPE:       Steam tug, tow boat
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        At Ashtabula, OH - 1862
    OWNER(S):       ?
    MASTER:         Capt. Joseph Greenhaigh, Jr.
    TONNAGE:        9.26 t
    DIMENSIONS:     ?
    CASUALTIES:     1 (her captain)

                    Exploded her boiler while towing the brig IROQUOIS
                  on the river at Cleveland. Investigation showed that
                  her boiler had become very foul with mud and sediment,
                  and it was supposed it had been damaged by burning
                  of the plates.
                  
                    November, 1868 - Ran into a loaded mud scow at
                  Cleveland and sank. Raised and Repaired.

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Sources: Troy (N.Y.) Daily Whig, 8 June 1869
         Buffalo Courier, 20 November 1868
         Merchant Vessel List - 1869
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"
         Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels - 1870