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  VESSEL NAME:  Joseph S. Fay
  OTHER NAMES:  -
  OFFICIAL NO:  75315
  REASON:       Foundered
  DATE OF LOSS: 19 October 1902
  LOCATION:     Lake Huron, off Forty-Mile Point
  RIG TYPE:     Propeller
  HULL TYPE:    Wooden
  BUILDER:      Quayle & Martin, Cleveland, 1871
  OWNER(S):     Bradley fleet
  MASTER:       Capt. Charles A. Fletcher
  TONNAGE:  882.31 gt (changed 1876 to 1220.96 gt)
  LENGTH:   215.50 ft
  BEAM:      33.50 ft
  DEPTH:     14.66 ft
  CASUALTIES: 1
  SURVIVORS:  13
  
    Owned: 1871 - Alva Bradely, H. Fay, Capt. Geo. Stone, et al.

    Some
    Incidents:  - June 1874, grounded at Saint Clair Flats.
                - 1880, Collison with Ontonagon at Port Huron.
                - Feb. 1884 - Dry dock.  New shaft, sternpipe, engine,
                  refastened & recaulked.  Old engine sold by Globe Iron
                  Works.                 
                - 9 Sept. 1885, Ashore at Presque Isle, corn, loss $3,000. 
                - May 1886, grounded, released with no damage.
                - Sept 1887, aground at Toledo, released.
                - Sept 1895, hard aground off Star Island Reef, near
                  Toledo.
                - Dec. 1896, stranded at Scott's Point.  
   
    October 19, 1905 - ashore at Forty Mile Point, Lake Huron, during a
    vicious winter gale and broken to pieces.  Mate Joseph Syze was the
    only casualty of 14 persons aboard.
   
    Three generations of shipmasters:
    Capt. Merwin S. Thompson, Jr. (1900 - 1901)
    Capt. Merwin S. Thompson, Sr. (1880 - 1882)
    Capt. George Stone            (1871 - 1875)
    
    The Thompson family can be found on the
    1880 Federal Census, 15th Ward, Cleveland, OH
    Microfilm Reel# T9-1008, Enumeration District 46, Page# 115A
    Residence: 72 Kinsman St.
    
    The Stone family is found, on this same census,
    living next door to the Thompson family on Page# 114D
    
    enroute from Escanaba, MI to Ashtabula, OH 
    
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Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes" , Dana Thomas Bowen, 1952
          The Marine Record, Cleveland, OH
          1880 Federal Census of Cleveland, OH