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    VESSEL NAME:   Emerald
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   (C)85417
    DATE OF LOSS:  mid November 1903
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Ontario
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast (built as a bark)
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       George Hardison, Port Colborne, Ont., 1872
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Francis McMaster
    MASTER:        same
    TONNAGE:       343 gc
    DIMENSIONS:    139 x 25.6 x 11.5
    CASUALTIES:    7 - 8 (all)

                   Sunk during a gale in mid-November, 1903, while bound
                Fair Haven to Toronto with coal for the Toronto Electric
                Company. Large amounts of wreckage, believed to be from the
                wrecked EMERALD, were reported as coming ashore near Coburg
                and east of Gull Light
                   Victims included Capt. McMaster and his son, Walter,
                three sailors and a female cook, Mrs. Wright, and her two
                small children. Funeral services for the lost crew were
                conducted by Rev. Dr. Gilray of the Presbyterian church, at
                Toronto.
                   Some sources report that the EMERALD later went missing
                during a gale in November, 1911, while bound Charlotte to
                Coburg with coal. I have not found any account of the 1903
                wreck being located, recovered, raised or rebuilt prior to
                1911. In August, 1909, what was thought to be one of her
                spars was found by fishermen out of Port Hope while tending
                their nets. Her wreck had not been located at that time.

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Sources: The Toronto Mail, 1 July 1872
         Registry Books Dominion - Prov. of Canada - 1873, 1886
         R. L. Polk's Marine Directory - 1888, 1891
         Milwaukee Journal, 28 November 1903
         St. John Daily Sun, 1 December 1903
         Oswego Daily Paladium, 8 December 1903
         Marine Review, Vol. 28 - Dec. 1903
         Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes, 1903
         Beeson's Marine Directory of the Western Lakes, 1904
         "Old Shipping Days in Oswego" - p. 199