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    VESSEL NAME:   Edward U. Demmer
    OTHER NAME(s): Admiral (1899-1913) J. K. Dimmick (1913-1920)
    OFFICIAL NO:   107523
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 May 1923
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, 40 miles off Thunder Bay
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Detroit Shipbuilding Co.
    OWNER(S):      Milwaukee Western Coal Company
    MASTER:        Capt. Joseph Burke, St. Clair, MI
    TONNAGE:       4,651 gt, 3,547 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    423.9 x 51.9 x 28
    CASUALTIES:    None of 27

                   Upbound to Milwaukee with 7,000 tons of coal when she
                was rammed by the ore carrier SATURN (later ALGOSOO) in
                a dense fog. The crew barely had time to get the life boats
                away before the DEMMER sunk. All were picked up by the
                freighters R. L. AGASSIZ and JAMES B. EADS.


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Sources: Buffalo Evening News, 21 May 1923
         Merchant Vessel List - 1901, 1923
         Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection