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    VESSEL NAME:   Nellie Mason
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   130221
    DATE OF LOSS:  13 November 1905
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, Cleveland, OH
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner-barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Thomas Arnold, E. Saginaw, MI. - 1882
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       554.86 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    181 x 33.33 x 11.33
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   Under tow of steamer LANSING, along with schooner B. W.
                PARKER, bound from Cleveland for Alpena laden with coal.
                Both were blown into the west breakwater at Cleveland and
                became total losses after the tow line broke.
                
                   Nov. 1887 - Ashore with lumber off Presque Isle.

                   Sept. 29, 1895 - Her crew of 7 men were rescued by Capt.
                John R. Glover, in command of the small tug O. W. CHENEY
                out of Buffalo, after the MASON was abandoned by her tow in
                a gale.

                Repairs 1896-'97 season at Alpena.

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Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884, 1891
         Marine Review, 14 January 1897
         Merchant Vessel List, 1906 (losses)
         "Progress, Business Resources, Manufactures and Commerce of
            Bay City, West Bay City and Tribuary Territory"
              Bay City Chamber of Commerce - 1884
         Beeson's Marine Directory of the Northwestern Lakes - 1901
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1904, p. 48