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    VESSEL NAME:   E. M. Portch
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   8300
    DATE OF LOSS:  26 March 1882
    REASON:        Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, between Manitowoc and Sheboygan
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3-mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Sorenson, DePere, WI., 1867
    OWNER(S):      Jacob Johnson
    MASTER:        Capt. Moore
    TONNAGE:       305.69 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     8

               The PORTCH, running light from Chicago to Rowley Bay
            for a cargo of railroad ties, was run down by the propeller
            LELAND when about midway between Manitowoc and Sheboygan during
            a dense fog.  The port bow of the PORTCH was broken in down
            to the water line.  As the PORTCH was not taking on water
            rapidly at that point she was taken in tow by the LELAND who
            attempted to take her to Manitowoc but, the wind shifting and
            blowing up a gale, course was changed for Sheboygan.  The
            PORTCH was unable to get over the bar and into the harbor as
            she had taken in so much water and had settled too deeply.  The
            increasing gale blew the wounded PORTCH on shore where she sunk
            in twelve feet of water and broke up.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1879
         Toronto Daily Mail, 1 April 1882
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S - 1882, pp. 195
         The Marine Record, 13 September 1883
         Federal Reporter, Vol. 20, May-August 1884 - pp. 918
         Federal Reporter, Vol. 19, February-May 1884 - pp. 771-781


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