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    VESSEL NAME:   Hiram Pearson
    OTHER NAME(s): Commerce (renamed 1838)
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  6 October 1849
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm  
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, at Calumet, ILL
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2-mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Sandusky - 1825
    OWNER(S):      Norton & Co., Chicago
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       96.56 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    71 x 21 x 8
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   Went ashore "between the two Calumets" and immediately
                went to pieces. 
                
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Sources: Spirit of the Lakes, and Boatmen's Magazine, Vol. 2, 1849
         Buffal Commercial Advertiser, 15 October 1849
         Tonnage of the Lakes, 1849
         Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. I, p. 514
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, Library of Michigan