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    VESSEL NAME:   Madeira
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   90321
    DATE OF LOSS:  10 October 1877
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Long Point, Lake Erie
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Goble & Macfarlane, Oswego, 1871
    OWNER(S):      Wheeler
    MASTER:        Capt. William Mack
    TONNAGE:       322 t.
    LENGTH:        136 ft
    BEAM:           26 ft
    DEPTH:          11 ft
    CASUALTIES:      0
    SURVIVORS:       -

                   Bound Milwaukee to Oswego with grain when caught 
                in a severe storm which disabled her steering gear.
                Stranded at Long Point and broke up.
                   
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Sources:  Old Shipping Days in Oswego, p. 188
          Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 21 August 1871
          Cong. Papers, Report of Chief Signal Officer, 1877 p. 639