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    VESSEL NAME:   New Orleans
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 June 1849
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Ran aground
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, Thunder Bay
    RIG TYPE:      Sidewheel steamer
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Detroit, 1844
    OWNER(S):      Gelston & Evans, Buffalo
    MASTER:        Capt. Nicholson
    TONNAGE:       610 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     ?

                   Ran on a reef near Sugar Island, Thunder Bay.  Fisher-
                men from Thunder Bay and Sugar Island took off the passen-
                gers.  Abandoned in place to the underwriters.

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Sources: Spirit of the Lakes, and Boatmen's Magazine, Vol. 2, 1849
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 18 June 1849
         Merchant Steam Vessels of the U.S.
         Tonnage of the Lakes, 1849
         Swayze "SHIPWRECK!" - p. 168