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    VESSEL NAME:   Muskegon
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   90466
    DATE OF LOSS:  1900
    REASON:        Abandoned
    LOCATION:      Manitowoc, WI
    RIG TYPE:      Steamer, side paddle
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       George S. Rand, Manitowoc, WI
    OWNER(S):      H. B. Burger, Manitowoc, WI
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       618 gt (increased to 662 gt in 1895
    DIMENSIONS:    193.7 x 29 x 12
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     -

                   While in dry dock at Milwaukee in September, 1896, to
                tighten down a few holding-down bolts on the engine bed,
                the blocks gave way and the MUSKEGON fell three feet
                causing such damage that she was declared a total
                loss.  Abandoned by the Goodrich Trans. Co., she was later
                sold to H. B. Burger of Manitowoc.  Milwaukee Dry Dock
                paid $10,915 to Goodrich Trans. Co for the loss of the
                MUSKEGON.
                   Shafts & boilers were removed in the late spring
                of 1900, follwing which she was towed upon the beach
                and abandoned.


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Sources: Merchant Vessel Lists - 1871, 1896
         Marine Review- 1 October 1896, 18 May 1899
         

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