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    VESSEL NAME:   James McBride
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   - (US)
    DATE OF LOSS:  19 October 1857
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, near Sleeping Bear Point
    RIG TYPE:      Brig, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       C. Stephens, Cattaraugus Creek, Irving, N.Y. - 1848
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       271 t (om)
    DIMENSIONS:    126 x 25 x 9.8
    CASUALTIES:    none mentioned

                   Driven ashore and wrecked during an October gale.

                   In 1855 Buffalo insurance companies declined to
                   insure the McBRIDE as they considered her to be
                   unseaworthy.

                   In April, 2015, with the blue waters of Lake Michigan
                   crystal clear, a Traverse City based Coast Guard
                   helicopter got some amazing images of shipwrecks
                   off Sleeping Bear Point. Among them is believed to be
                   the brig JAMES McBRIDE.

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Sources: Annual Report of the Board of Lake Underwriters - 1857
         Buffalo Republic - 30 March 1848
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. 1 - 1899
         Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!" - 1992
         WZZM TV-13, Grand Rapids, MI - 20 April 2015