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    VESSEL NAME:   Minnie Doak
    OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen as Minnie Duke
    OFFICIAL NO:   17994
    REASON:        Wrecked against ice banks
    DATE OF LOSS:  1870, in the fall
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 1 mile N. of Black Lake
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2-mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Alex Doak, Depere, WI., 1867
    OWNER(S):      Robert Miller & W. H. Ewing, Pentwater, MI
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       14.26
    LENGTH:        44 ft
    BEAM:          12.4 ft
    DEPTH:          5.5 ft
    CASUALTIES:    ?
    SURVIVORS:     ?


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Sources: List of Merchant Vessels of the U.S., vol. 5, (1868-1872)
            p. 207(shown as wrecked)
         East Shore News, Pentwater, MI., 27 January 1871
         East Shore News, Pentwater, MI., 17 March 1871
         List of Sailors from Ahnapee (Algoma), WI
         Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes, 1871; Capt. J. W. Hall
            p. 20
         Correspondence with Dave Swayze, 6 November 2013