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    VESSEL NAME:   Florida
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   120753
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 May 1897
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision  
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, between False Presque Isle & Middle Island
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Mills Dry Dock Co., Buffalo
    OWNER(S):      Red Star Line, Buffalo - Chartered to Lackawanna Trans.
    MASTER:        Capt. Henry Murphy
    TONNAGE:       2103 gt, 1834 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    270 x 40 x 15.4
    CASUALTIES:    None
    
                   Bound from Chicago to Buffalo with 56,000 bushels
                of wheat and full upper load of package freight when
                she came in collision with the steel steamer GEORGE
                W. ROBY in a dense fog and went to the bottom quickly.
                Her crew were all taken aboard the ROBY.


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Sources: Ludington Appeal - 27 May 1897
         Buffalo Evening News - 21 May 1897
         Merchant Vessel List - 1891