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    VESSEL NAME:   John S. Newhouse
    OTHER NAME(s): (seen frequently as only J. S. Newhouse)
    OFFICIAL NO:   12764
    DATE OF LOSS:  25 October 1874
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Grand Haven
    RIG TYPE:      Barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Peck and Masters, Cleveland - 1856
    OWNER(S):      at Chicago
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       292.17 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    135,41 (oa) x 26.04 x 11.49
    CASUALTIES:    ?
    SURVIVORS:     ?

                   Originally built as a 2-masted schooner and brought out
                 by Capt. James Spencer of Cleveland.  In October, 1857
                 Capt. Spencer would leave a widow and four children when
                 he was washed overboard during a gale when off Presque
                 Isle, Lake Huron.

                   October, 1856 - dismasted in the Straits.

                   April 1858 - sailor instantly killed in fall from the
                 rigging on approach to Chicago.

                   November 1859 - Was among several vessels that broke
                 from their moorings during a gale at Baffalo. Collided
                 with a small Canadian vessel.

                 24 November 1860 - Driven ashore near Goderich. No lives
                 lost.

                   October 1862 - Aground on Saint Clair Flats. Lightered
                 off.

                   August 1866 - Ran into and sunk the schooner AUTOCRAT
                 off Chicago.

                   1871 - Collided with schooner RUSSIAN at Chicago.

                   July 1871 - Caught fire and scuttled at Grand Traverse
                 Bay.  Raised and rebuilt in 1873, being converted into a
                 barge.

                 25 October 1874 - Driven ashore in a storm at Grand Haven
                 and went to pieces there.


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Sources: Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer - 1874
         Merchant Vessel List - 1871,
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 3 June 1856
         Buffalo Daily Republic, 29 October 1857
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 30 October 1862
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 7 August 1866
         Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899, p. 720