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    VESSEL NAME:   Manistee
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   90311
    DATE OF LOSS:  15 November 1883
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight and passenger
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       E. M. Peck, at Cleveland, 1867 for the Engleman Line
                   at a cost of $65,000
    OWNER(S):      Ward Line, manager Capt. Eber Ward
    MASTER:        Capt. John McKay
    TONNAGE:       561.39
    DIMENSIONS:    155 x 27 x 10
    CASUALTIES:    23 (nineteen crew & four passengers)
    SURVIVORS:     0

                   Lengthened 1871.  New measurements 184 x 30 x 9 of
                625.93 gt.  Tonnage change 1873, new being 677.10 gt.
                Major repairs in 1879.

                   During the winter of 1873 the MANISTEE spent 58
                days ensnared in fields of ice up to nine feet thick about
                eight miles off Ludington.  Captain Morgan and some of his
                crew walked across the ice, dragging a boat with them in
                case the encountered open waters, and landing three miles
                south of Ludington in order to obtain supplies.

                   Lost in a violent storm while en route from Duluth
                for Ontonagon & Portage with general freight and
                passengers.  For the next six months wreckage from the
                MANISTEE continued to come ashore on the Keweenaw
                Peninisula.


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Sources: Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes"
         Stonehouse & Fountain "Dangerous Coast," 1997, p. 69
         Stonehouse "Went Missing Redux,"
         Mason County Record, 26 February 1873
         Ludington Record, 6 December 1883
         Ludington Daily News, 15 January 2005



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