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    VESSEL NAME:   Milan
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 October 1849
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered, leak
    LOCATION:      Lake Ontario, 5 miles off Point Breeze
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2-mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Asa Wilcox, Three-Mile Bay, 1845
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Robert Richardson, Oswego
    MASTER:        Same
    TONNAGE:       147 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    93 x ? x ?
    CASUALTIES:    0 of 7

                   Enroute from Oswego to Cleveland with 1,000 barrels
                of salt when the MILAN began taking on water.  The pumps
                were unable to keep pace with the inrush and, after an
                unsuccessful attempt to run her ashore, the MILAN went down
                barely giving the crew time enough to escape in the small
                boat.
                   The wreck of the MILAN was discovered in 2005 sitting
                upright with both masts still intact.  After 160 years on
                the bottom of Lake Ontario the MILAN was described as being
                in such good shape that it almost looked like it could be
                floated.

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Sources: Rochester Republican, 18 October 1849
         Tonawanda News, 12 December 2006