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    VESSEL NAME:   Emerald
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   36340
    DATE OF LOSS:  6 November 1903
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan,
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner-barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       W. Dixon, Saginaw, MI - 1869
    OWNER(S):      Leathem & Smith, Sturgeon  Bay, WI
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       286 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    134 x 32 x 9
    CASUALTIES:    none

                   After sheltering at Kewaunee for a couple of days the
                 tug LEATHEM left port for Ludington with the stone laden
                 barges KELLOGG and EMERALD in tow. The steam pump on the
                 EMERALD gave out and was "fixed up" but didn't stay that
                 way for very long. At about midnight it quit working at
                 all and the EMERALD was sinking. She was half full of
                 water by the time the LEATHEM took her crew off. The line
                 was cut and she dived for the bottom, head first. Later a
                 derelict was reported floating in the lake off Frankfort
                 and it was guessed to be the EMERALD, which was thought to
                 have dumped her cargo before striking bottom and came back
                 to the surface. No effort was made to recover her.

                   Driven ashore at Kewaunee on 17 November 1886 in a heavy
                 southeast gale and was reported a total loss with a loss
                 of five lives. Was one of four barges in tow of the tug
                 CHIEF JUSTICE FIELD, bound from Toledo to Milwaukee with
                 coal. Purchased the next summer for $300 by Leathem &
                 Smith for use as a stone barge.

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Sources:  Merchant Vessel List - 1881, 1886
          Cheboygan Democrat - 25 November 1886
          Marine Record - 30 December 1886 (losses)
          The (Sturgeon Bay) Advocate - 7 November 1903
          Buffalo Evening News - 9 November 1903
          Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. I