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    VESSEL NAME:   Major
    OTHER NAME(s): built as John Mitchell, 1889. Given new in 1902.
    OFFICIAL NO:   (US) 76792 - (CAN) 134263
    DATE OF LOSS:  27 September 1941
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Burned
    LOCATION:      Georgian Bay, Midland, Ontario
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       F. W. Wheeler, West Bay City, MI - 1889
    OWNER(S):      at Midland, Ont.
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       2,149 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    292.6 x 41 x 20.4
    CASUALTIES:    None

                   Ran on Round Island Shoal in October, 1903. Lightered
                 and released.

                   Stranded on a sandbar south of Madeline Island opposite
                 Chequamegon Point Lighthouse in July, 1906. Bound from
                 Cleveland to  Ashland, light.

                   Aground on the west bank of Detroit River, just above
                 Bois Blanc island in June, 1911.

                   Foundered and abandoned by her crew 30 miles northwest
                 of Whitefish Point in the great gale of 1913 with no loss
                 of life. Picked up by the Tomlinson steamer, BARNUM, in
                 command of Capt. Wm. G. Maltby, and towed to Whitefish.
                 The BARNUM stood by her until tugs arrived. Towed to the
                 Soo, repaired and sold Canadian.

                   Stranded off Lexingtom, MI., in a heavy fog in June
                 1919. Released by Reid Wrecking Co., Port Huron.

                   In later years was made into a barge and, later still,
                 as a 200 ft. drydock. Partially burned in 1941 at Midland,
                 Ont., and scuttled in Midland Bay.  Hulk raised in 1962
                 and towed out to deeper water in Georgian Bay & resunk.


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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1901, 1902, 1914
         Buffalo Courier - 13 October 1903
         Oswego Daily Times - 30 July 1906
         Buffalo Courier - 24 June 1911
         Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times - 22 December 1914
         Buffalo Courier Express - 7 January 1949
         Buffalo Courier - 27 June 1919
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan