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    VESSEL NAME:   Oakwood
    OTHER NAME(s): City of Berlin, Charles A. Luck, Richland Star
    OFFICIAL NO:   126717
    DATE OF LOSS:  5 August 1934
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire
    LOCATION:      Blackwell Canal, Buffalo, N.Y.
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       James Davidson, West Bay City, MI - 1891
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       2,051 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    298 x 41 x 21
    CASUALTIES:    none

    August 1904 - As CITY OF BERLIN - sunk near Belle Isle by collision
                  with propeller CHILI. Raised and repaired.

    June 15, 1925 Ran ashore about 2 miles from Miller's Point, Lake Erie,
                  during a storm with dense fog. Capt. John (Happy Jack)
                  Davis had recently been appointed as her captain after
                  having served on her as mate. By the 19th she was being
                  stripped. After several attempts the OAKWOOD was finally
                  released and towed to drydock at Buffalo where the damage
                  was found to be much greater than anticipated. Her bottom
                  was split, lost wheel and rudder, lost shoe and rudder
                  post and her hull was badly twisted. The OAKWOOD was
                  temporarily patched up enought to tow her out of drydock
                  while the under-writers and owner, Bert Riley, disagreed
                  whether or not she was a total loss.
                    In March, 1926, the OAKWOOD was offered for sale in
                  her "as is" damaged condition lying in the Blackwell
                  Canal at Buffalo. It seems there were no takers. On
                  August 5, 1934, nearly thirty fire companies were
                  summoned to battle a conflagration that started in the
                  former Lehigh Valley Railroad freight house. An hour
                  after the fire started, flames spread across the canal
                  and ignited the old OAKWOOD, burning her to the keel.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1916, 1925
         Buffalo Courier - 17 May 1925
         Buffalo Evening News - 19 June 1925
         Buffalo Courier, 18 March 1926
         Rome (N.Y.) Daily Sentinel - 6 August 1934
         http://us-data.org/ny/erie/disaster/fire/warehouse-blaze-1934.txt
         Green's Marine Directory - 1936 (list of name changes)