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    VESSEL NAME:   Narragansett
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   18110
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 May 1901
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, 11 miles off Goderich
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Quayle & Martin, at Cleveland, 1861
    OWNER(S):      J. Leisch, Milwaukee
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:     317 gt
    LENGTH:      140 ft
    BEAM:         26 ft
    DEPTH:        12 ft
    CASUALTIES:  0
    SURVIVORS:   -

                   Abandoned by crew in the middle of Lake Huron after she
                sprang a leak and filled with water.  Was picked up by the
                steamer ADVANCE but was only towed for about 3 hours before
                she sank.

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Sources: Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes, 1901, p. 11
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 15 April 1861
         Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1898
         Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1900
         Stocking, "Detroit," p. 147
         Kohl, "Shipwreck Tales of the Great Lakes," p. 208