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    VESSEL NAME:   B. R. Loomis
    OTHER NAME(s): Often seen as B. R. Lummis
    OFFICIAL NO:   2240
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 September 1872
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Grand Traverse light
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       D. Rogers, Sodus, N.Y. - 1855
    OWNER(S):      owned at Racine in 1871 *
    MASTER:        Capt. J. W. Jones
    TONNAGE:       158 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    1 of 8

                   The LOOMIS was loaded with lumber for Chicago and
                driving before a heavy sea when she struck the propeller
                CITY OF FREMONT (later ADIRAMLED) in the darkness off Grand
                Traverse light. The propeller took her in tow and kept her
                for almost an hour and a half before a heavy starboard sea
                capsized the injured schooner. The crew were left clinging
                to for over 24 hours, until the overturned wreck finally
                struck the reef at Grand Traverse. The crew made it six
                miles to shore on a make-shift raft of spars and lumber.
                The only named loss of life was the cook, Harry Hazlet, who
                died of exhaustion.


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Sources: Pentwater (Mich) News, 11 October 1872
          (*says "out of Duncan City, Michigan)
         Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"