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    VESSEL NAME:   Naomi
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   18108
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 November 1869
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan,Big Sable Point
    RIG TYPE:      Bark
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Peck & Masters, Cleveland - 1858
    OWNER(S):      Willard & Carpenter
    MASTER:        Capt. James M. Carpenter
    TONNAGE:       435 t
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    3 (Capt., wife & 1 sailor)
    SURVIVORS:     7

                   Rebuild in 1865

                     Bound from Erie, PA., to Milwaukee laden with hard
                  coal when blown ashore sixteen miles south of Manistee.
                  One sailor, Dennis Burke, perished attempting to reach
                  shore.  The captain and his wife perished from exposure
                  while lashed to the mast.  Remainder of the crew,
                  reportedly seven, were rescued by Capt. Calloway, of the
                  schooner TOLEDO, and volunteers who put out from Manistee
                  in a boat.  The NAOMI went to pieces before the bodies of
                  the captain and his wife could be taken off.

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Sources: Milwaukee Sentinal, 9 October 1869
         Toledo Blade, 12 November 1869
         Merchant Vessel List, 1869
         Vessel Losses, 1869