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    VESSEL NAME:   Frank Canfield
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   120256
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 April 1904
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, near Big Sable Point light
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, steam tug
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI. - 1875
    OWNER(S):      Canfield Tug Line
    MASTER:        Capt. Henry J. Smith
    TONNAGE:       48 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    62 x 16 x 8
    CASUALTIES:    3 of 5

              Enroute from Manistee to Muskegon when caught in a blinding
           snowstorm.  Rough seas snapped one of the steering chains and
           drove the tug aground. It was the CANFIELD's first trip of the
           season. Her compass had not been adjusted, the life-preservers
           were stored beneath other things in the hold, and she carried no
           anchor. Distress calls were blown on the whistle, but after a
           few blasts the whistle rope broke. Lifesavers from the Big Point
           Sable station rescued two of the crew, but the lake claimed
           three.

                         Victims
              Henry J. Smith, Captain
              Charles Kopfer, Engineer
              Charles Grosman, Cook

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Sources: Ludington Daily News, 27 July 2002
         Ludington Record-Appeal, 14 April 1904
         Swayze, David D. "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1905