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    VESSEL NAME:   Elizabeth Jones
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   8193
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 November 1883
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Racine Reef
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Mason & Bidwell, Buffalo - 1867 
    OWNER(S):      Wm. H. Abel, Buffalo
    MASTER:
    TONNAGE:       636.47 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    184 x 23 x 13
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   She was bound from Chicago to Buffalo carrying 40,000
                bushels of corn when she was driven on Racine Reef by a
                heavy southwest gale which was called the heaviest in
                years. Her owner abandoned her to the underwriters on the
                15th.
                   Collision with propeller ROANOKE at Buffalo.
                   Collision with the schooner SAWYER in July, 1871.
                   Collision with schooner WILLIS off Point Pelee in
                November, 1872. WILLIS sunk and reported as a total loss.
                   Collision with the schooner NABOB in the Straits on
                July 13, 1873. Little damage to the JONES.
                   Sold to Wm. Able and Wm. Bain by M.N. & H. R. Jones for
                $40,000 in 1873.
                   Built as a bark. Rig changed to three-and-after schooner
                in 1875.
                   Large repairs at the Mills shipyard in 1882

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1871, 1881
         Detroit Post, 25 July 1867 (launch)
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 3 April 1874.
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 9 September 1875
         Chicago Daily Tribune, 29 April 1882
         Buffalo Evening News, 12 November 1883
         The Toronto Mail, 14 November 1883
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 17 November 1883
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"