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    VESSEL NAME:    Montauk
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    16403
    DATE OF LOSS:   24 November 1882
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Grounded in a gale
    LOCATION:       North Manitou Island, Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        George Goble, at Oswego, N.Y. - 1863
    OWNER(S):       Capt. Gabe Gunderson, Chicago
    MASTER:         Capt. Gabe Gunderson, Chicago
    TONNAGE:        331 gt
    DIMENSIONS:     137'
    CASUALTIES:     None

                    MONTAUK was bound from Buffalo, N.Y., to Chicago with
                 a cargo of coal. After passing through the Straits of
                 Mackinac she was overtaken by a heavy northerly gale
                 accompanied by blinding snow and became disoriented.
                 Stranded off the north end of North Manitou Island. The
                 life-saving crew was able to take all eight hands off the
                 wreck with no loss of life.

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Sources: Buffalo (N.Y.) Morning Express - 21 November 1863
         Oswego (N.Y.) Commercial Times - 16 April 1863
         Oswego (N.Y.) Palladium - 1 December 1882
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1883
         Merchant Vessel Lists - 1871, '74, (not found in 1881)
         Finn, Leo J., "Old Shipping Days in Oswego"