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    VESSEL NAME:   Jamaica
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   13306
    DATE OF LOSS:  2 August 1885
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, near Glencoe, IL
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       George Goble, Oswego - 1863
    OWNER(S):      Thomas Norton & Capt. Matt. Hourigan, Oswego
    MASTER:        Capt. Matt. Hourigan
    TONNAGE:       218 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     10 (7 crew + the captain's wife, niece and son)

                   Caught in a severe summer storm on Lake Michigan
                while en route from Oswego to Chicago laden with coal.
                Crippled and in a sinking condition the beaten and battered
                schooner was run ashore a mile north of Glencoe, IL.  All
                aboard were rescued by the Evanston life-saving crew the
                next day.

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Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884
           *Note: listed as a scow
         The Buffalo Expess, 5 August 1885
         The Oswego Palladium, 5 August 1885
         Finn "Old Shipping Days In Oswego" - 1972, pp. 187
         Alumni Record of the College of Liberal Arts, 1903
         Annual Report U.S.L.S.S. - 1886 (see url below)
            http://www.us-data.org/mi/glm/report/lss/an-rep-1886.txt