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    VESSEL NAME:   Merida
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   92514
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 October 1916
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, abt. 40 miles SE of Long Point
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Frank Wheeler & Co., W. Bay City, MI - 1893
    OWNER(S):      James Playfair
    MASTER:        Capt. Harry L. Jones
    TONNAGE:       3,261 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    360 x 45 x 20.8
    CASUALTIES:    23-24 (all)

                   Loaded with iron ore the MERIDA was sunk by the same
                fierce storm that took down the D. L. FILER, JAMES B.
                COLGATE and MARSHALL F. BUTTERS. No survivors.
                
                   In May, 1896, her engine was thoroughly wrecked when off
                Sanilac, MI.
                   Rebuilt in 1904 to move her pilot house forward and
                machinery back.


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Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser - 11 May 1893
         Buffalo Daily Courier - 25 October 1916
         Swayze, David D. "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992
         Great Lakes Maritime Database - University of Michigan