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    VESSEL NAME:   Maplehurst
    OTHER NAME(s): Cadillac (US126876), renamed in 1920 
    OFFICIAL NO:   138230 (Canadian)
    DATE OF LOSS:  1 December 1922
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, near Portage Ship Canal
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Chicago Shipbuilding Co., - 1892
    OWNER(S):      Canadian Steamship Co., Quebec
    MASTER:        Capt. Nason Bernard (d)
    TONNAGE:     1,263 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  230 x 37.2 x 15.3
    CASUALTIES:  11
    SURVIVORS:    9

                  Bound from Lorain, Ohio, to Port Arthur with 1,800 tons
               of coal when she was caught in a heavy gale.  When nearing
               Portage Entry her power plant became disabled and left her
               at the mercy of the storm.  The coast guard crew from
               Portage Entry manuevered their power surf boat alongside the
               MAPLEHURST numerous times to take off those who were brave
               enough to make the leap from the listing steamer into the
               storm tossed surf boat.  Ten men would make the jump, one
               missing the surf boat and being lost.  MAPLEHURST struck
               hard upon the west breakwater and broken up by the crashing
               waves.

               Casualty List: (from Schenectady Gazette)
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               George Nelson Menard, Captain, Kingston, Ont.
               Ambrose Dunn, Chief Engineer, Kingston, Ont.
               Henry J. Smith, First Mate, Kingston, Ont.
               G. Lalonde, Second Mate, Veryfield, Ont.
               Jack Wood, Wheelsman, Hamilton, Ont.
               Hiram ______, Wheelsman, Kingston, Ont.
               Gaston Malette, Oiler, Cascade Point, Ont.
               "Mac" McKastle, Fireman, Sidney, Ont.
               ______ Hughes, Second Cook, Montreal, Quebec
               C. E. Pelton, Deckhand, St. Zotoque.
               A. Pelton, Deckhand, St. Zotoque.
                              
               
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Sources:  Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph, 1 December 1922
          St. Petersburg (FL) Times, 2 December 1922
          Ludington (MI) Daily News, 1 December 1922
          The Quebec Daily Telegraph, 1 December 1922
          The Schenectady Gazette, 2 December 1922
          Barry "Wrecks and Rescues of the Great Lakes" - p. 107
          Bowen "Shipwrecks of the Lakes" - pp. 287-292
          Green "Namesakes, 1920-1929" p. 48

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