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    VESSEL NAME:   Onoko
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   155048
    DATE OF LOSS:  14 September 1915
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Foundered
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, off Knife Isl., 14 miles out of Duluth
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Iron
    BUILDER:       Globe Ship Building Co., Cleveland - 1882
    OWNER(S):      Steinbrenner, Cleveland
    MASTER:        Capt. W. R. Dunn
    TONNAGE:       2,164 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    286 x 39
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   Bound Duluth to Buffalo with 110,000 bushels of wheat
                but only made it as far as Knife Island when the engineer
                reported a leak under her engines. The rapid inflow of Lake
                Superior could not be stopped or contained and quickly
                stopped the engines.  Her crew took to the boats and had
                barely cleared the doomed ONOKO when she went down and were
                picked up by the Standard Oil steamer RENOWN shortly
                afterward.
                
 May 4, 1884      Collision with the schooner W. S. CROSSTHWAITE in
                tow of steamer OWEN.

 May 17, 1896     Collision with the schooner MARY D. AYER off Grosse
                Point, Lake Michigan. AYER sunk with 5 lives lost.
                
 April 23, 1900   Ashore on Rush Shoal, near North Manitou Island. 
 
     June, 1902   Disabled off Pelee Island when connecting rod broke.

 July 22, 1907    Stranded on an unmarked shoal in St. Marys River during a
                dense fog. Est. damage $15,000.

 Nov. 23, 1907    Collided with stone abutment while entering canal lock at
                Sault Ste. Marie. Damage $5,000.

 Oct. 4,  1907    Collision with steamer D. O. MILLS near junction of the
                Mamajuda and Grassy Island ranges.

   Oct. 1912      Collision with steamer STADACONA at the Great Northern
                slip, Duluth. Beached after being out of harbor for 6 hours
                and found to be taking on water. Damages to cargo, $12,000.
                To ONOKO, $3,000.

 Dec. 1, 1910     Stranded on Point Pelee after mistaking a gaslight on
               shore for the Southeast Shoal Light Vessel. Lightered and
               released the next day.

                   First of the large iron (not steel) vessels on the Great
                Lakes.


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Sources: Ludington Record, 23 February 1882
         Ludington Daily News, 28 May 1896
         The Federal Reporter, Vol. 100, April-May 1900
         Marine Record, 5 June 1902
         Pittsburgh Press, 25 September 1904
         Report of the Steamboat Inspection Service, 1907
         Milwaukee Sentinel, 15 September 1915
         Marine Review, Vol. 46 - February, 1916
         U.S. Courts of Appeals, Vol. 155 - 1918
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"