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    VESSEL NAME:   Ironton
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   100122
    DATE OF LOSS:  26 September 1894
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision 
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, 10 miles n. of Presque Isle
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, schooner barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       by Notter, 1873, at Buffalo, N.Y.
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Wm. S. Mack, Cleveland, OH., et al.
    MASTER:        Capt. Peter Girard, Cleveland
    TONNAGE:       742 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    190.9 x 35.4 x 12.9
    CASUALTIES:    5 of 7 (including Capt. Girard, Mate Ed Bostick,
                   of Whitebrook, MI., German sailor John Pape., cook
                   Mrs. Hall.)
    
                   The IRONTON and the schooner-barge MOONLIGHT were in
                tow of the steamer C. J. KERSHAW, upbound from Ashtabula
                to Marquette, MI. The steamer's engine broke down in heavy 
                seas with a heavy south gale blowing. The schooner barges 
                threw off their tow lines anddrifted apart as the IRONTON 
                crew began setting sails and getting in the tow line. 
                until she collied with the downbound propeller OHIO,
                cutting the OHIO to the water's edge abreast of the boiler
                house and caving in her own bow.
                
                Two survivors were Wm. Woolley, donkeyman, of Port Dover,
                Ont., and W. W. Parry, sailor, of East China, MI., who
                were picked up by the steam barge HEBARD.
                


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Sources: Marine Review, 4 October 1894
         Marine Record, 27 September 1894
         Times Herald, Port Huron, MI - 27 September 1894
         Detroit Free Press, 27 September 1894
         Merchant Vessel List, 1887
         Inland Lloyds Vessel Register, 1894