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    VESSEL NAME:   Merchant
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  13 June 1847
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, near Munising, MI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner? Brig? Most frequently called schooner.
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       1834
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        Capt. Robert Brown
    TONNAGE:       74 t [om]
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    14? (All)

                   Said to have been overloaded when she left Sault Ste.
                 Marie on June 11th. Capt. Robert Moore, of the SWALLOW,
                 had temporary command of the MERCHANT as Capt. Moore had
                 broken his leg on Jume 10th running the rapids to sound
                 the water.


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Sources:  Detroit Free Press, 20 July 1847
          Ypsilanti Sentinel, 23 June 1847
          Brooklyn (N.Y.) Daily Eagle, 13 July 1847
          Historical Collections, Michigan Pioneer & Historical Society,
            Vol. XXX. 1906 - p. 583