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    VESSEL NAME:   David M. Foster
    OTHER NAME(s): (also known as D. M. Foster, Dell Foster)
    OFFICIAL NO:   (C)
    DATE OF LOSS:  1 December 1882
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Oswego harbor
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Port Burwell, Ont., 1863, as a bark
    OWNER(S):      Joseph Jackson, S. & D. Sylverster, Toronto
    MASTER:        Capt. James Jackman
    TONNAGE:       315 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    120.5 x 23.2 x 9.3
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   Bound Toronto to Oswego with lumber consigned to E. W.
                Rathbone & Co., and Crane, Belden & Co. Upon reaching
                Oswego harbor she was taken in tow by the tug CUMMINGS but
                heavy seas caused the FOSTER to surge in one direction and
                the CUMMINGS in another, snapping the hawser and sending
                the FOSTER towards the beach under the fort bank. Twice the
                CUMMINGS was able to get a line to the schooner but it
                broke each time. The tug was forced to abandon the effort
                and turned back as the FOSTER was hurled against the rocks.
                The schooner's crew of 7, and the vessel's dog, were
                rescued by Capt. Blackburn and the Oswego life-saving crew.
                Her insurance had expired eighteen hours before she
                wrecked.
                  Rebuilt in 1874; Major repairs in 1880.


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Sources: Oswego Morning Post, 2 December 1882
         Port Huron Daily Times, 1 December 1882
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, Univeristy of Michigan
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1884
         Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!!" - 1992