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    VESSEL NAME:    Dot
    OTHER NAME(s):  Mary Merritt (Canadian) renamed 1882
    OFFICIAL NO:    (US) 157078
    DATE OF LOSS:   25 August 1883
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Foundered
    LOCATION:       Lake Superior, off Grand Marais
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner, (built as a bark)
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        L. Shickluna, St. Catherines, Ont., 1865
    OWNER(S):       Capt. W. Jones, et. al, Cleveland
    MASTER:         Capt. A. C. Smith (part owner)
    TONNAGE:        300 t
    DIMENSIONS:     139 x 23 x 11
    CASUALTIES:     0

                    The schooner DOT, ore laden from Marquette, was in
                 tow of the steam barge M. M. DRAKE when she began taking
                 on water and was abandoned at about 1 p.m. while off
                 Grand Marais. Her crew was taken aboard the M. M. DRAKE.
                 She was spotted by the barge CHARLES WALL at 4 p.m., which
                 approached the DOT and found her deserted, with mizzenmast
                 gone and weather side bulwarks carried away.

                 Originally owned Canadian, as the MARY MERRITT, she went
                 ashore and was wrecked near Grand Marais on September 12,
                 1881. Released by Capt. S. B. Grummond (or perhaps Capt.
                 Mark Swain with the tug WINSLOW) and taken to Detroit
                 where she was finally sold by the U.S. Marshal to satisfy
                 the wrecking charges. Her subsequent repairs did not
                 amount to three- fourths of her value, the amount of which
                 was required by law to transfer her citizenship. American
                 papers were not granted until the amount of the wrekcing
                 bill was included in the total. She was finally renamed on
                 September 15, 1882, and became the American schooner DOT.

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Sources: Detroit Free Press - 24 September 1881
         Detroit Free Press - 25, 28, 29 August 1883
         Canadian List of Vessels - 1873