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    VESSEL NAME:   Moonlight
    OTHER NAME(s): none
    OFFICIAL NO:   90719
    REASON:        Foundered in storm
    DATE OF LOSS:  13 September 1903
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, 12 miles off Michigan Island.
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden, 3 masts
    BUILDER:       Wolf & Davidson, Milwaukee, WI., 1874
    OWNER(S):      Hibbard & Vance, et. al., Milwaukee (1881-1889)
                   Capt. Wm. S. Mack et. al., Cleveland (1889-1894
                   Gilchrist Transportation Co (at loss)
    MASTER: 
    TONNAGE:       777 gt
    LENGTH:        205.9 ft
    BEAM:           33.5 ft
    DEPTH:          14.2 ft
    CASUALTIES:      0
    SURVIVORS: 
 
         April 1874 - Damaged by fire at Milwaukee
         
          May  1874 - Lost both anchors in the Straits of Mackinaw.
         
         June  1874 - Collided with schooner J. J. Case in the Straits
                      of Mackinaw.
                      
         March 1875 - Reported leaking at Milwaukee after being laid up
                      there over the winter with a cargo of wheat.
                      
        4 Oct  1881 - Heavily damaged while attempting to enter Cleveland
                      during a heavy gale.  Hit both east and west piers.
                      
          May  1883 - Collision at Milwaukee.  Run into by the propeller
                      CONEMAUGH.
                      
       29 Sept 1895 - Driven ashore near mouth of Chocolay River, near
                      Marquette, MI., while under tow of steamer KERSHAW.
                      Crew was able to walk ashore.
                      
          May  1896 - Stranded at Marquette, MI            

       13 Sept 1903 - Foundered on Lake Superior during a heavy northeast
                      gale while downbound with iron ore, under tow of
                      steamer VOLUNTEER.  Crew rescued by VOLUNTEER.
             

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Sources:  Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 18 March 1874
          Chicago Inter-Ocean, 25 December 1874
          Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 12 March 1875
          Cleveland Herald, 5 October 1881
          Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 28 May 1883
          Duluth Evening Herald, 29 Jan 1889
          Port Huron Daily Times, 30 September 1895
          Buffalo Morning Express, 22 May 1896
          Merchant Vessel List, 1902
          Buffalo Evening News, 16 September 1903
          Milwaukee Journal, 24 March 1949