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    VESSEL NAME:   Knight Templar
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   14110
    DATE OF LOSS:  1905
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Abandoned  
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, near Alpena *
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner-barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       George Goble, Oswego - 1865
    OWNER(S):      F. W. Gilchrist, Port Huron, MI
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       289 gt, 275 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    135.9 x 26 x 10.3
    CASUALTIES:    none
    
                   Blown into the shallows during a storm and abandoned.
                Pounded to pieces by heavy waves.


         * One source says she was abandoned at Whitefish Point.

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Sources: Finn, Leo J. "Old Shipping Days in Oswego" - p. 187
         Detroit Free Press, 24 May 1865
         Blue Book of American Shipping, 1903
         Merchant Vessel List - 1903,1904, 1905
         Beeson's Marine Directory - 1906 (Vessels abandoned 1905)
         Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!" - 1992