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    VESSEL NAME:   Grace M. Filer
    OTHER NAME(s): Sometimes seen as GRACIE M. FILER
    OFFICIAL NO:   (US)85312, (C ?)
    DATE OF LOSS:  1930
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Abandoned
    LOCATION:      Belleville, Ont.
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3-masted
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Wm. W. Bates & Co., Chicago - 1874
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       237.07 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    128.75 x 27.42 x 9
    CASUALTIES:    none

                   Dismantled and abandoned at Belleville, Ont., 1930.
                Hull dynamited in 1937.

                   Sept, 1876 - Rescued crew of the sinking schooner,
                HARVEST HOME, on Lake Michigan.

                   April, 1877 - Run into and damaged by the barge
                BRUNETTE at Chicago.

                   Oct., 1883 - Ashore at Green Bay. Cargo, lumber.

                   Sept., 1894 - Ashore 4 mi. s. of Grand Traverse light,
                Lake Michigan.

                   1904 - At Milwaukee, death of Capt. Charles Gunderson
                after taking 2 doses of what he believed was Epsom salts.
                Crew found to be drunk when officials from the coroner's
                office boarded the boat to investigate.

                   Oct., 1922 - Aground in Belleville harbor, coal laden.

                   Sold Canadian in 1913; Rebuilt 1914


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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1885
         Oswego Daily Times, 11 September 1894
         Oswego Daily Palladium - 13 October 1904
         Finn, Leo "Old Shipping Days in Oswego" p. 203