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    VESSEL NAME:   Maud Preston
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   91849
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 September 1898
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire  
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, Maumee Bay
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, sand sucker
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       McMillan, St. Joseph, MI - 1886
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Gillespie
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       175 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    109 x 19.4 x 6.3
    CASUALTIES:    none
    
                   Caught fire and burned to the water's edge while
                 towing the barge FOSTORIA. Had been transformed into
                 a sand barge and wrecker at Toledo the previous
                 spring.
                 
                   Libeled at Detroit for a $1,299.33 coal bill in
                 December, 1894, and sold under the hammer.
                 
                   Another fire in August, 1892, burned her cabin and
                 a large portion of her stern.
                 
                   Aground near Naubinway, Lake Michigan, in July, 1891.
                 Owned by Ellen E. Bradley - out of Muskegon.

                   Engaged in the fruit trade between Saugatuck and
                 Milwaukee in 1888.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1890, 1891
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1891
         Buffalo Enquirer - 24 July 1891
         Buffalo Enquirer - 26 August 1892
         Oswego Daily Times - 24 December 1894
         Buffalo Review - 26 April 1898
         New York Times - 21 September 1898
         St. Joseph Herald - 11 August 1888