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    VESSEL NAME:    Daniel Lyons
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    6780
    DATE OF LOSS:   18 October 1878
    REASON:         Collision
    LOCATION:       Lake Michigan, abt. 6 miles off Ahnapee
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner, 3 mast fore-and-after
    HULL TYPE:      Wooden
    BUILDER:        Goble & Macfarlane, Oswego, 1873
    OWNER(S):       George Goble & Daniel Lyons
    MASTER:         Capt. M. M. Holland
    TONNAGE:      318 ton
    LENGTH:       146.5 ft
    BEAM:          26 ft.
    DEPTH:         11 ft.
    CASUALTIES:     0
    SURVIVORS:      -

                    Bound Chicago to Buffalo with cargo of wheat
                 when struck between the main and mizzen rigging
                 on the starboard side by the schooner Kate Gillet,
                 cutting half way through the deck.  Crew was taken
                 aboard the Kate Gillet and landed at Chicago.
                 
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Sources: Oswego Daily Palladium, 4 February 1873
         Chicago Inter Ocean, 21 October 1878
         Old Shipping Days in Oswego, p. 188