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    VESSEL NAME:   Havana
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   95116
    DATE OF LOSS:  3 October 1887
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Near St. Joseph, Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Miller & Co. at Oswego, 1871
    OWNER(S):      Capt. A. P. Read, Kenosha
    MASTER:        Capt. John Curran
    TONNAGE:       306 gt
    LENGTH:        135 ft
    BEAM:           25 ft
    DEPTH:          10 ft
    CASUALTIES:    3
    SURVIVORS:     4
               
               Bound from Escanaba to St. Joseph with 800 tons iron ore
             consigned to the Spring Lake Iron Co.  Sighted in a sinking
             condition about 6 a.m. flying distress signals.  Four of
             the crew rescued by the tug HANNAH SULLIVAN.  Three others
             presumably drowned when the main rigging, which they had
             climbed, crashed overboard.
             Survivors:
             Samuel McChimon, mate
             Charles Hogan
             Robert McCormick
             George Hughes
             
             Casualties:
             John Curran, captain
             John Morris, steward
             Joseph Clint, seaman

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Sources: Old Shipping Days in Oswego, p. 188
         Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, BGSU
         R. L. Polk & Co., Directory of Marine Interests, 1884
         Daily Argus News, Crawfordsville, Ind., 5 October 1887
         Marine Record, 6 October 1887