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    VESSEL NAME:   Robert B. King
    OTHER NAME(s): frequently seen as R. B. King
    OFFICIAL NO:   21286
    DATE OF LOSS:  7 November 1885
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Muskegon
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       St. Joseph, MI - 1863
    OWNER(S):      Capt. James C. Dunbar
    MASTER:        (same)
    TONNAGE:     82.84 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  ?
    CASUALTIES:  2
    SURVIVORS:   2

                 Attempted to run into Muskegon harbor during a severe
              southwesterly gale but took a broad sheer and smashed into
              the north pier.  Rebounding with her timbers stove in, she
              immediately filled with water and capsized.  She had come
              from Chicago in ballast.
                 Later investigation showed that the KING was so rotten
              as to be unseaworthy; the underwriters refusing to insure
              her.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1884
         Annual Report U.S.L.S.S. - 1886

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