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    VESSEL NAME: Dacotah  (sometimes found as DAKOTAH)
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO: -
    REASON: Storm
    DATE OF LOSS:  24 November 1860
    LOCATION: Lake Erie, between Evans Center & Eighteen Mile Creek, N.Y.
    RIG TYPE: Propeller
    HULL TYPE: Wooden
    BUILDER: Luther Moses, Cleveland, OH., 1857
    OWNER(S): James F. Clark, Dean Richmond & F. M. Hale
              New York Central Railroad
    MASTER: Capt. Wm. S. Cross
    TONNAGE: 698 t
    LENGTH:  193 ft
    BEAM:     30 ft
    DEPTH:    12 ft
    CASUALTIES: 24
    SURVIVORS:   0

                    The DACOTAH left Buffalo on Friday, November 23rd,
                    in company with the propeller ACME, with her cargo
                    hold packed with 282 tons of general merchandise
                    for delivery at Chicago and Milwaukee. They were
                    both opposite Dunkirk when the weather turned ugly,
                    blowing a strong gale with blinding snow.  The ACME
                    put back to Buffalo but the DACOTAH kept on, being
                    last seen by the ACME about three miles above Dun-
                    kirk.  At about 9 p.m. on Saturday, the 24th, the
                    DACOTAH struck a reef, close to shore, a mile above
                    Sturgeon Point. Shouts were heard during the night
                    by members of the Bennett family.  The family searched
                    for an hour but, finding nothing, decided they must
                    have been mistaken.  Mrs. Bennett sent her son out to
                    search again in the morning and he found portions of
                    the wreck, including the entire starboard side resting
                    some 20 feet from the water.  Wreckage and cargo was
                    strewn along the beach for several miles, along with
                    the life-boat, in nearly perfect condition. Passengers
                    included part of the crew from the propeller MARQUETTE,
                    which had been laid up in Buffalo, on their way home
                    to Chicago.


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Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 3 July 1857
         Buffalo Daily Republic, 26 & 27 November 1860
         History of the Great Lakes, edited by John Brandt Mansfield