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    VESSEL NAME:   Orphan Boy
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   18919
    DATE OF LOSS:  4th or 5th December 1885
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Big Point Sable
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Wm. Jones, Lorain, OH - 1862
    OWNER(S):      Mackinaw Lumber Co.
    MASTER:        Captain Holliday
    TONNAGE:       365.78
    DIMENSIONS:    144 x 30.2 x 11.7
    CASUALTIES:    6+ (accounts vary)
    SURVIVORS:     0

                   Built as a bark but called a schooner after July, 1866.
                   Sailed from St. Ignace for Chicago on December 1 with
                 365,000 feet of lumber.  On December 4th & 5th a severe
                 gale whipped Lake Michigan into a fury.  When the ORPHAN
                 BOY didn't arrive in Chicago hope was held out that she
                 had taken shelter in some out of the way harbor, possibly
                 disabled.  The tug SAUGATUCK was sent to search for the
                 missing schooner but after two weeks the ORPHAN BOY
                 remained missing.  It would be another six weeks before
                 her bones were found, four miles north of Big Point Sable,
                 by Capt. John Lysaght, then keeper of the Big Point Sable
                 life saving station.

                    Capt. Holliday left a widow and family at Scriba,
                 Oswego county, N.Y.  Two of his brothers, George and
                 William, were lost when the schooner GILBERT MOLLISON went
                 missing somewhere near the Manitou Islands, Lake Michigan,
                 on October 27, 1873.

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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 1862
         Merchant Vessel List - 1885
         The Marine Record, 17 December 1885
         Ludington Daily Record - 7 January 1886
         Ludington Daily News - 4 March 1941
         Swayze, "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992
         Shelak, "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan" - pp. 153