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    VESSEL NAME:    Iron Age
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    100256
    DATE OF LOSS:   4 June 1909
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Fire 
    LOCATION:       Lake Erie, abt 10 mi s.w. of Bar Point
    RIG TYPE:       Propeller
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        Detroit Dry Dock, 1880
    OWNER(S):       Capt. Willoughby & Richard Baxter (engineer)
    MASTER:         Capt. W. J. Willoughby
    TONNAGE:        859.46 gt
    DIMENSIONS:     116 x 34 x 16.33
    CASUALTIES:     none
    
                    Burned to the water's edge. Crew escaped in a
                  yawl and were picked up by the barge THOMPSON.
                  Source of fire unknown. Her fiesty female cook,
                  one Miss Mckay, of Detroit, refused to leave
                  the ship and had to be physically loaded into
                  the yawl after picking up a hose and beginning
                  to fight the blaze herself.
                    Hull was deemed a hazard to navigation and
                  removed with dynamite and dredge, the pieces
                  being taken to a dumping ground at Point Mouillee.


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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1909 (losses)
         Chicago Inter-Ocean - 6 Dec 1909 (vessel losses)
         Detroit Evening Times - 5 June 1909
         Detroit Free Press - 17 Aug 1909
         Detroit Free Press - 8 Sept 1909