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    VESSEL NAME:    W. C. Kimball
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    81178
    DATE OF LOSS:   May, 1891
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Foundered
    LOCATION:       Manitou Passage, Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        at Manitowoc, WI - 1888
    OWNER(S):       Owned at Northport, MI
    MASTER:         Capt. James Stevens
    TONNAGE:        33.05 gt, 31.40 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     63.3 x 17.3 x 4.9
    CASUALTIES:     4 (All)  James Stevens, Charles Kehl, Karl Andreason,
                             William P. Wolfe

                    The W. C. KIMBALL spent her short career on Lake
                 Michigan. She traveled the coastline from Northport
                 to Chicago, stopping at ports along the way, with her
                 cargo of salt, wood shingles, potatoes and other sun-
                 dries common to the day.
                    The W. C. KIMBALL cleared the piers at Manistee
                 on the evening of May 7, 1891, bound for her home port
                 of Northport, MI with a cargo of shingles and 200 bar-
                 rels of salt never to be heard from again. A northwest
                 gale pounded northern Lake Michigan the next morning. A
                 few days later the upbound schooner LAWRENCE reported
                 passing through wreckage off Point Betsie. No bodies
                 were ever recovered.
                    In September, 2018, shipwreck hunter Ross Richardson
                 discovered, using side scanning sonar, spotted an in-
                 teresting image that would later prove to be a perfectly
                 intact schooner resting 300 feet below the waves. Later
                 dives, with detailed video footage, would prove her to
                 be the long lost W. C. KIMBALL.


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Sources: Merchant Vessels of the United States - 1888, 1889
         The Marine Record, 12 April 1888
         The Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier, 13 May 1891
         Beeson's Sailors' Hand-Book & Inland Marine Guide, 1891
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1891
         Chicago Inter Ocean, 7 December 1891 (List of losses)
         History of the Great Lakes, John Brandt Mansfield
           (incorrectly states "passed out 1895")
         WZZM TV13, 12 November 2019
         Chicago Tribune, 16 November 2019