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    VESSEL NAME:   James Davidson
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   75786
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 October 1883
    REASON:        Fog
    LOCATION:      Thunder Bay Island Reef, Lake Huron
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       James Davidson, Bay City, 1874
    OWNER(S):      Robert Jenks, St. Clair, MI
    MASTER:        Capt. H. G. McQueen
    TONNAGE:       1456 gt
    LENGTH:         230 ft
    BEAM:            37 ft
    DEPTH:           19.6 ft
    CASUALTIES:   0
    SURVIVORS:    18

                 Bound from Buffalo to Duluth, loaded with coal and
              towing the schooner-barge MIDDLESEX, stranded on Thunder
              Bay Island Reef.  The MIDDLESEX was freed and was on her
              way the next day.  Attempts were made to save the DAVIDSON
              over the next 24 hours but a gale with heavy seas had set
              in and the crew was taken off by the Thunder Bay Island
              Life-Saving crew and the DAVIDSON was abandoned to the
              seas and the underwriters.

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Sources: Mansfield, "History of the Great Lakes,"
                    Port Huron Daily Times, 22 June 1874
                    Merchant Vessel List, 1884
                    Stonehouse, "A Short Guide to the Shipwrecks of
                                 Thunder Bay," p. 54
                    Annual Report of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, 1885