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    VESSEL NAME:   Peoria
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   19668
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 November 1901
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Bailey's Harbor, WI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       A. Gillman, Black River, Ohio - 1854
    OWNER(S):      Capt. M. G. Bonner
    MASTER:        same
    TONNAGE:       166 gt
    LENGTH:        112 ft
    BEAM:           24 ft
    DEPTH:           8 ft
    CASUALTIES:  0
    SURVIVORS:   6

                   Was loaded with 100,000 feet of hardwood lumber from
               East Jordan bound for Chicago when a heavy southwest gale
               set in.  Both anchors were thrown out when inside the harbor
               but failed to hold.  Crew of six rescued by the life-saving
               service.
                
                   Was also wrecked and declared to be a total loss in
               the "Alpena Storm" of 1880 when her crew spent all one
               night and most of the next day hanging in the rigging before
               being rescued by the schooner CONWAY.
               
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Sources: Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes, 1901, p. 11
         "History of Lorain County, Ohio," p. 215
         Blue Book of American Shipping, 1897
         Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1898
         Ludington Chronicle, 16 November 1901
         Boyer, "Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes," p. 181
         Neuschal, "Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships,"
            p. 121-127