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    VESSEL NAME:   Gilbert Mollison
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   85126
    REASON:        Storm
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 October 1873
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, near the Manitou Islands
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Miller & Lefevre, Oswego - 1871
    OWNER(S):      Mitchell & Murray, Oswego
    MASTER:        Capt. Joel A. Turner
    TONNAGE:       318 t.
    LENGTH:        138 ft.
    BEAM:           26 ft.
    DEPTH:          11 ft.
    CASUALTIES:  All (8, possibly 9)
    SURVIVORS:   0

                  Cleared Chicago on the evening of October 25th,
               1871 loaded with 20,022 bushels of corn and in company 
               with several other vessels. Last reported seen on the
               evening of the 27th northward of the Manitous prior
               to a savage storm that ripped through the region.  Her
               empty yawl boat washed ashore on the mainland southeast
               of N. Manitou Island on Nov. 3d.
               
               Casualties:
               Joel A. Turner, age 37, captain, of Scriba.
                    He left a widow, Margaret, and 5 children:
                    Joel (age 9), Anna (age 7) and Mary (age4);
                    two other children born after Apr. 1, 1870.
               William Halliday, mate, of Scriba
               Judson Prosser, age 24, 2d mate, of Scriba
               George Halliday, seaman, of Oswego
                     Left a wife and two children.
               George Messmore, seaman, Welland Canal
               [unknown], seaman
               Driscol (Halliday?, surname?), Oswego
               Kate Shaughnessey, of Belleville, Ontario.              
               
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Sources:  Oswego Palladium, 8 April 1871
          Oswego Palladium, Nov. 6, 7, 10, 11, 17 & 18, 1873
          1870 Census, Scriba, Oswego Co., N.Y.
          Old Shipping Days in Oswego, J. Leo Finn, 1972 - p. 187