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    VESSEL NAME:   Northern Queen
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   130436
    DATE OF LOSS:  1925
    REASON:        Scrapped
    LOCATION:      -
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, 1889
    OWNER(S):      -
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       2,476 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    300 x 41 x 22
    CASUALTIES:    -
    SURVIVORS:     -

                   4 June 1891 - Ran down the schooner FAYETTE BROWN in a
                heavy fog near Point au Pelee, Lake Erie.  Schooner was a
                total loss while the NORTHERN QUEEN suffered no damage.  No
                loss of life.  Capt. Smith, master.

                   29 July 1901 - Collision with the 308 ft. whaleback
                barge SAGAMORE during a heavy fog off Point Iroquois, Lake
                Superior, immediately sinking the barge.  Three lives lost
                from the SAGAMORE.

                   23 November 1908 - Collision with her sister ship,
                NORTH STAR, in heavy fog off Port Sanilac, Lake Huron.
                NORTH STAR sunk in 90 ft. of water, a total loss.

                   14 July 1912 - Collision with steamer G. J. GRAMMER
                north of Corsica Shoals in a fog.  GRAMMER sunk but
                recovered.

                   9 November 1913 - Ashore off Kettle Point during the
                disastrous 1913 storm.  Recovered with no loss of life.
                Sold to salt water and scrapped in 1925.

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Sources: Marine Review, Vol. 38 - 1908, p. 44
         Rideau Record, 18 November 1913
         Toronto Globe, 12 November 1913
         Marine Review, Supplement, March, 1914
         The Federal Reporter, Vol. 117 - p. 906-
         Swayze, "Shipwreck!" - 1992, p. 206
         Donahue "Schooners In Peril" - 1999, p. 54-55
         Greenwood "Namesakes, 1910-1919", p. 203
         Bourrie "Many A Midnight Ship" - 2005


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