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    VESSEL NAME:   Julia Dean
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  6 October 1855
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded 
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Skillagalee reef
    RIG TYPE:      Brig
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Peck, Masters & Co., Cleveland, OH., 1854
    OWNER(S):      B. S. Shepherd, of Chicago
    MASTER:        Capt. E. S. Wilson
    TONNAGE:       497 t. [o.m.]
    DIMENSIONS:    148 x 30 x 12
    CASUALTIES:    None mentioned
    
                   JULIA DEAN was downbound from Chicago laden with
                 wheat when she went on Skillagalee during a gale.


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Sources: Cleveland Morning Leader, 11 May 1854
         Detroit Free Press, 25 October 1855
         New York Times, 3 November 1855
         Pittsburgh Daily Post, 3 November 1855
         Buffalo Daily Republic, 3 November 1855
         Mansfield, J. B., - "History of the Great Lakes"
         WZZM News, Grand Rapids, MI. - 10 November 2014