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    VESSEL NAME:   Grace Dormer
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   10997
    DATE OF LOSS:  1925
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire
    LOCATION:      Buffalo, N.Y.
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, passenger ferry & package freight
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Osman, at Buffalo - 1868
    OWNER(S):      Frank J. Offermann, Buffalo
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       65.99 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    70.9 x 17.5 x 5.7
    CASUALTIES:    none

                Caught fire near the beach at the upper ferry landing at
             Grand Island, a marine graveyard, where she had been
             abandoned.

                Blown off course in a brisk gale and went aground on a
             sandbar at the head of Buckhorn Island, Niagara river, in
             June, 1924. Total of 29 persons (including crew) taken ashore
             in boats and landed at the Iroquois street dock.
             
                Sunk at Port Huron by collision with the tug FRANK MOFFATT
             in July, 1883. DORMER made it to the dock before settling
             to the bottom in 13 ft. water. No lives lost.
             
                Burned to the water's edge at St. James, Beaver Island,
             on July 3, 1872. Rebuilt at Port Huron.

                Once described as a floating palace.


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Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 25 June 1873
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899
         Buffalo Courier, 24 June 1924
         Buffalo Courier-Express, 22 April 1934
         Swayze, David D. "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992