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    NAME:  Outward Bound
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    REASON: foundered in storm
    DATE:  17 April 1849
    LOCATION: near Manitou Island, Lake Michigan
    TYPE: schooner
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: built 1846
    OWNER: Richmond & Co., Chicago, IL
    MASTER: 
    TONNAGE: 260
    LENGTH: 
    BEAM: 
    DEPTH: 
    CASUALTIES: 10
    SURVIVORS:  0

                    Marine Disasters - The schooner Outward Bound
                  was lost, with all on board, near the Manitou
                  Islands, on the 17th of April.  The captain of
                  the schooner Tempest reports that he saw the
                  Outward Bound on that day, with a signal of dis-
                  tress flying - ensign set union down - and that
                  he immediately stood towards her.  It was blowing
                  a very heavy gale of wind - snowing and weather
                  extremely cold, and the vessel making ice very
                  fast.  He approached near enough to distinguish
                  the people on board, all of whom were gathered
                  aft on the quarter, and counted them - 10 in 
                  number, including the captain's wife.  When he
                  was within 30 rods of the ill-fated vessel, she
                  went down and all hands perished.  She went down
                  bodily, fore and aft, the last vestige he saw of
                  her being the head of the jib.  The Outward Bound
                  was a vessel of 260 tons burden, 3 years old this
                  summer.  She was owned by Richmond & Co., of Chi-
                  cago, and her cargo consisted of 270 bbls pork,
                  do. beef, 940 do. flour, and 1200 bushels of wheat.
                  Both cargo and vessel were insured.
                                    

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Sources: Daily British Whig, Kingston, Ont., May 8, 1849