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    VESSEL NAME:   William R. Crowell
    OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen only as W. R. Crowell
    OFFICIAL NO:   80531
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 December 1893
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Michigan City
    RIG TYPE:      Tug
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Gibson & O., at Buffalo - 1875
    OWNER(S):      Dunham Towing Co., Chicago
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       57 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    74 x 17 x 8
    CASUALTIES:    none

                   The CROWELL and tug T. T. MORFORD were going to the
                relief of the steamer F. W. WHEELER, ashore at Michigan
                City, in a heavy northwest gale when the CROWELL sprung
                a leak and went down. Her crew was taken off by the
                MORFORD. Fishermen from Michigan City went to the Dunham
                Co., in the winter of 1893-'94 claiming that they new
                exactly where the CROWELL was but, despite an exhaustive
                search of the area, the CROWELL was not found and the
                search abandoned in early July, 1895.

                   The CROWELL was worth $15,000 and carried no insurance.


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Sources: R. L. Polk's Marine Directory, 1888
         The Chicago Daily Tribune, 1 July 1895
         Marine Review, 4 & 11 July 1895