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    VESSEL NAME:   Augustus Ford
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   1084
    DATE OF LOSS:  18 April 1890
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, Fairport, OH
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Riggs & Ford, Dexter, Jefferson Co., N.Y. - 1853
    OWNER(S):      Oscar Hill, Port Huron
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       183.99 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    107 x 24.6 x 10
    CASUALTIES:    4

     Nov. 24, 1874 - Aground at Port Maitland and reported as lost.
                     Capt. Joseph C. Pease (owner & master), Charles Hurd
                     (seaman from Oswego), Lizzie Sullivan (cook) and
                     Thomas Brown (seaman) died of exposure.  The steam tug
                     SARAH BRYANT, of Buffalo, went to render assistance,
                     removing the frozen dead bodies and saving part of
                     the cargo.  For this humane act the BRYANT was seized
                     by the Canadian authorities and subjected to 30 days'
                     detention as well as a fine. The FORD was towed to the
                     Erie Basin by the tug BILL MORSE. Libelled for towing
                     bills in August, 1875, and sold for $340 by the U.S.
                     Marshal on November 5th.
                     
     Apr. 18, 1890 - Wrecked by wind driven ice at Fairport, OH.                


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Sources: Oswego Daily Palladium, 25 November 1874
         House Documents, 13th Congress, 2d Session, 1879-80
         Merchant Vessel List, 1877
         Beeson's Inland Marine Guide - 1891, 1892

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