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    VESSEL NAME:   Thomas Parson(s)
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   24666
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 September 1891
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, off Fairport, OH
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       George Hardison, Charlotte, N.Y., 1868
    OWNER(S):      Capt. John Mullins, Buffalo, N.Y.
    MASTER:        (same)
    TONNAGE:       350 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    135 x 26 x 13
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     ?

    August, 1874 - Struck a rock and sunk in Welland Canal while enroute
                   from Chicago to Oswego with 19,025 bushels of corn.

   October, 1874 - Ashore on North Manitou Island, Lake Michigan, and
                   declared a total wreck.

     April, 1882 - Collided with the schooner CLAYTON BELLE about ten
                   miles north of Port Huron.  Loss of 4 lives from the
                   CLAYTON BELLE which was declared a total loss.

      July, 1887 - Bound for Cleveland with ore, and in tow of the steamer
                   NASHUA, when she sprung a serious leak and was run
                   ashore at Beaver Island to prevent sinking.

September 28, 1891 - Laden with coal and, along with the NEWSBOY and WM.
                     YOUNG, was in tow of the steamer NASHUA enroute to
                     Racine, WI., when the PARSONS foundered off Fairport,
                     OH.  No loss of life.


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Sources: Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 25 May 1868
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 17 August 1874
         Port Huron Daily Times, 19 October 1874
         Buffalo Enquirer, 2 October 1891
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 11 October 1891
         Beeson's Inland Marine Guide, 1891 - p. 72
           (names owner as Thomas Mullins, Buffalo, N.Y.)
         Coal and Coal Trade Journal, Vol. 30, p. 480
         Merchant Vessel List - 1877, 1888, 1891
         Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. I
         Kohl "Shipwreck Tales of the Great Lakes" p. 156
         Heden "Directory of Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes" p. 66