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    VESSEL NAME:   Minnie Davis
    OTHER NAME(s): Almina
    OFFICIAL NO:   90635
    DATE OF LOSS:  14 November 1892
    REASON:        Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, off Bar Point
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Dakins, Port Burwell, Ont. -  1862
    OWNER(S):      Thomas Dunford, Port Huron, MI
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       173 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    92 x 22 x 10
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     -

                   Extensive repairs at Cleveland in 1881

                   Sunk by collision with HUNTER SAVIDGE in 21 feet of
                   water. In Admiralty the SAVIDGE was found at fault in
                   the collision with a verdict of $2,500 damages.

                   Blown up as a hazard to navigation the following spring.
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Sources: Lake Vessel Register, 1869
         Cleveland Herald, 12 March 1881
         Merchant Vessel List, 1890
         Beeson's Inland Marine Guide - 1891, 1892
         Buffalo Enquirer, 15 November 1892
         Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes", 1899 - p. 764