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    VESSEL NAME:   Nelson
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   18173
    DATE OF LOSS:  13 May 1899
    REASON:     Storm
    LOCATION:   Lake Superior, off Grand Marais, MI
    RIG TYPE:   Schooner-barge
    HULL TYPE:  Wood
    BUILDER:    Milwaukee, 1866
    OWNER(S):   Mitchell Transportation Company, Bay City, MI
    MASTER:     Captain Andrew Hagney, Toledo
    TONNAGE:    766 gt
    DIMENSIONS: 163.5 x 32.2 x 12.1
    CASUALTIES: 7
    SURVIVORS:  1

                The steamer A. FOLSOM was bound for Lake Linden with the
              schooner-barges MARY B. MITCHELL and NELSON, loaded with
              coal, in tow when the NELSON broke her towline in a gale and
              sunk.  The only survivor was Capt. Andrew Hagney who floated
              ashore on the cabin roof.  Among the victims of the disaster
              were Capt. Hagney's wife and infant son.
                 The FOLSOM and MITCHELL made it to the harbor entrance at
              Grand Marais but local tugs wouldn't risk the storm to bring
              them inside.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1898
         The Marine Review, 21 December 1899
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1900, pp. 179
         Port Huron Daily Times, 15 May 1899
         
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