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    VESSEL NAME:   Pontiac
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  14 May 1864
    REASON:        Explosion
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Grand Haven
    RIG TYPE:      Sidewheel steamer
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Grand Rapids, MI., 1853
    OWNER(S):      Capt. John B. Parks, Grand Haven
    MASTER:        (same)
    TONNAGE:       68 t.
    DIMENSIONS:    124 x 17 x 3
    CASUALTIES:    3
    SURVIVORS:     ?

                   Built to transport goods and passengers up and down the
                Grand River with commerce ending at Grand Haven. 
                   Destroyed by boiler explosion at Grand Haven May 14,
                1864, with loss of three lives.   

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Sources: Marine Record - 8 April 1886
         Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes," - 1899. p. 701
         The Federal Cases, Book 6 - 1894, p. 1194
         Baxter "History of Grand Rapids," 1891 , p. 519
         Gaines "Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks," 2008, p. 81
         Chrysler "The Story of Grand River," 1975, p. 16
         Lydens "The Story of Grand Rapids," 1966, p. 112