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    VESSEL NAME:  Dawn
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO: -
    REASON: Collision
    DATE OF LOSS:  21 Oct 1859
    LOCATION:  Lake Erie, abt. 12 miles above Port Stanley
    RIG TYPE:  Schooner, 2 masts, scroll head
    HULL TYPE: Wooden
    BUILDER:   Lyon, Milan, OH., 1847 (Launched April 14th)
    OWNER(S):  J.P. Clay (1847)
               F. Waldorf, Monroe Co., MI (1855)
               Gibson, Waldron & Sterling, Monroe, MI (at loss)
    MASTER:    Capt. E. B. Gibson
    TONNAGE:   202 t
    LENGTH:    105 ft
    BEAM:       20.4 ft
    DEPTH:       8.11 ft
    CASUALTIES: ?
    SURVIVORS:  ?
    
    
               May 1, 1851 - Possibly the same schooner DAWN that,
               caught in a squall, lost her main boom, large portion
               of rigging, galley & part of her deck load.  Arrived
               at Buffalo water-logged.
              
               October, 1853 - Collision with schooner RAMBLER on 
               Lake Erie.

               July 9, 1855 - Bound from Toledo to Buffalo was caught
               in a squall at Long Point.  Severly damaged was taken
               in tow by the steamer GLOBE.  Abandoned near shore
               where she sunk.  Raised a week later and towed to
               Buffalo for repairs by the MICHIGAN.

               Bound up to Monroe, MI., on Friday, October 21st,
               was run into by the propeller NEW YORK.  Struck just
               foreward of the cabin and cut down to the water's
               edge, sinking in about 10 minutes.  The crew was
               taken aboard the NEW YORK to Dunkirk.  Mansfield's
               History of the Great Lakes says 5 lives lost, but
               there is no mention of casualties in news articles.
               
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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 25 Oct 1859
         History of the Great Lakes, edited by John Brandt Mansfield
         Buffalo Express, 19 April 1847