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    VESSEL NAME:   Fayette Brown
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:   9748
    REASON:        Collision
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 June 1891
    LOCATION:      Pelee Passage, Lake Erie
    RIG TYPE:      Schr
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Stevens & Presley, Cleveland, 1868
    OWNER(S):      M. A. Bradley, Cleveland
    MASTER:        Capt. Halstrum
    TONNAGE:     555.35 gt
    LENGTH:      178.5 ft
    BEAM:         31.3 ft
    DEPTH:        12.8 ft
    CASUALTIES:   0
    SURVIVORS:

                On June 4, 1891, the schooner FAYETTE BROWN was bound
                Portage Entry for Buffalo with a cargo of brownstone
                blocks. Normally the BROWN would have been in tow of
                another vessel but, on this occassion, was sailing
                alone. At 2 a.m., when 9 miles east of Dummy Light-
                house, she was run down by the propeller NORTHERN QUEEN,
                bound for Duluth with coal, and quickly sunk in 60 feet
                of water. One crewman of the BROWN was quick enough to
                jump onto the NORTHERN QUEEN, the remainder barely had
                time to make the schooner's cross-trees before she went
                down.  They were rescued by the upbound steamer ROBERT
                MILLS.  Accusations that the propeller failed to render
                aid to the schooner's endangered crew came fast and
                furious.  These were quickly rebutted by Capt. Smith
                of the NORTHERN QUEEN but was likely not believable as
                the following January the Northern Steamship Company
                agreed to pay the Bradley estate $25,500 for the loss
                of the FAYETTE BROWN and her cargo.

                The FAYETTE BROWN was valued at $16,000 and rated A2.
                Later removed as a navigational hazard.

                In 1886 the FAYETTE BROWN had a narrow escape on Lake
                Michigan while in tow of the SELAH CHAMBERLAIN.  The
                CHAMBERLAIN was run down by the propeller JOHN PRIDGEON,
                JR., and was sunk within 15 minutes.


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Sources: Detroit Free Press, 5 June 1891
         Marine Review, 27 January 1892