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    VESSEL NAME:   Cyprus
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   204527
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 October 1907
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, about 8 miles off Deer Park
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       American Shipbuilding Co., Loran, OH, 1907
    OWNER(S):      Lackawana Steamship Co.
    MASTER:        Capt. F. B. Huyck
    TONNAGE:     4,900 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  420 x 52 x 28
    CASUALTIES:  22
    SURVIVORS:   1 1 - Second Mate Charles G. Pitz

                 CYPRUS was just twenty-five days old, and only on her
              second voyage, when news of her loss shocked the marine
              world.
                 CYPRUS was down bound from Superior, WI., loaded with
              7,103 tons of iron ore in weather that was "rough" but not
              considered to be severe.  Suddenly the new freighter took on
              a serious list and soon rolled over before diving to the
              bottom of Lake Superior.  Only Charles Pitz, second mate,
              would survive the disaster.
                The wreckage of the CYPRUS was discovered about 460 feet
              beneath the surface in 2007 by a team with the Great Lakes
              Shipwreck Historical Society while searching for the wreck of
              the D. M. Clemson.


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Sources: Annual Report of the Steamship Inspection Service, 1908
         Merchant Vessel List, 1908 (Losses)
         Plumb "History of the Navigation of the Great Lakes"
         Greenwood "Namesakes 1900-1909"
         Barry "Wrecks and Rescues of the Great Lakes"
         Bowen "Shipwrecks of the Lakes"
         Swayze, David D. - "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992
         Toledo Blade, 10 September 2007
         The Detroit News (AP), 27 August 2012