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    VESSEL NAME:   Mansfield
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  30 June 1855
    REASON:        Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, abt. 30 miles SW of Manitou Islands
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       F. Jones, Buffalo - 1847
    OWNER(S):      H. K. Vielle & Samuel Greene, Buffalo
    MASTER:        not mentioned
    TONNAGE:     213 gt
    LENGTH:      116 ft
    BEAM:         24 ft
    DEPTH:         8.6 ft
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     -

              Bound Milwaukee to Oswego with 10,000 bushels of wheat.
           Encountering a dense fog the captain ordered the MANSFIELD
           brought about when she was run down by the schooner TELEGRAPH
           and sunk in about 15 minutes; total loss.


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Sources: Cleveland Herald, 14 April 1847
         Buffalo Democracy, 6 July 1855