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    VESSEL NAME:   David Dows
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   157029
    DATE OF LOSS:  29 November 1889
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Waterlogged & foundered
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, abt 6 mi. from S. Chicago breakwater
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 5 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Bailey Bros., at Toledo, 1881
    OWNER(S):      John Corrigan et al, Cleveland
    MASTER:        Capt. Thomas Roche
    TONNAGE:       1,4181 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    265 x 37 x 18
    CASUALTIES:    0

                      The DAVID DOWS left Erie on November 16th with
                   coal for Chicago. She was taken in tow by the big
                   steamer AURORA, which already had the schooner
                   GEORGE W. ADAMS in tow, when near the head of Lake
                   Michigan. Soon afterward a heavy northeast gale
                   began blowing which veered to the northward and
                   increased in violence. Great waves threw the AURORA's
                   wheels out of the water as wind driven snow hid the
                   trio from each other. The gale had gradually blown
                   the boats eastward. When Chicago was seen to the
                   westward the AURORA, one of the most powerful steamers
                   on the lakes, was unable to turn her tow and had no
                   choice but to cast them off and run for assistance.
                      The DAVID DOWS had been taking on water and, as
                   the AURORA left them, the crew gave up hope, and the
                   pumps. Eight men lashed themselves in the rigging. Four
                   of them finally manned the lifeboat and went to the
                   ADAMS. Near daybreak the tug T. T. MORFORD arrived
                   on the scene and quickly returned to port, returning
                   with the life-saving crew and the tug CHICAGO. By this
                   time the DOWS was so iced up that it was impossible to
                   slip or heave up her anchors. A few minutes after the
                   men departed the DOWS she gave a heavy lurch to port
                   and went down.
                      Newspaper accounts describing the frozen condition of
                   the crew hinted that some of them may have lost limbs as
                   a result.
                     Crew List:
                     Thomas Roche, Captain
                     E. J. Donohue, first mate
                     Martin Johnson, second mate
                     Robert Keyes, donkeyman
                     Michael Gallagher, cook
                     Augustus Anderson, sailor
                     Peter Johnson, sailor
                     Andrew McKay, sailor
                     William Lawrence, sailor

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1881
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884
         Chicago Tribune, 30 November 1889
         Buffalo Evening News, 7 August 1908
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S, 1890