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    VESSEL NAME:   Owego
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   18926
    DATE OF LOSS:  29 November 1867
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, just above Van Buren Point, near Dunkirk
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       R. Calkins (Calkins & Sears), Cleveland, 1853
    OWNER(S):      Erie Railway Steamboat Company
    MASTER:        Capt. Albert B. Drake, of Buffalo
    TONNAGE:    483 t.
    LENGTH:     169 ft
    BEAM:        28 ft
    DEPTH:       11 ft
    CASUALTIES:  5
    SURVIVORS:   2

                 Cleared Toledo on November 28th loaded with mixed
              freight for Buffalo.  Ran into a blinding snowstorm and
              went aground 4 - 5 miles west of Dunkirk.  Five of the 
              crew were lost when they attempted to make land and their
              boat capsized.  On December 1 the TIOGA, from Buffalo,
              was sent to assist in freeing the OWEGO but she was found
              to be too far gone to be salvaged.
                 Casualties:
                 Orrin Philips, engineer
                 Samuel Johnson
                 William Johnson
                 William Davis
                 (1 unknown)
              
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Sources:  Mansfied, "History of the Great Lakes", vol. II, pg 152
          Buffalo Daily Republic, 19 August 1853
          Register of Ships, 1864
          Toledo Blade, 1 December 1867
          Heyl, "Early American Steamers", vol. 5, pg 272
          Great Lakes Vessel Index, Bowling Green, OH