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    VESSEL NAME:   Racer
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   21189
    DATE OF LOSS:  17 November 1869
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Hammond's Bay, Lake Huron
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       B. B. Jones, Buffalo - 1856
    OWNER(S):      J. M. Lundy & Capt. Gilbert Hearns
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       257 gt.
    DIMENSIONS:    130 x 28 x 3
    CASUALTIES:    none mentioned


                   Downbound from Marquette laden with iron ore first
                lost her canvas on Lake Superior, then grounded in a gale
                and totally wrecked at Hammond's Bay.

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1869
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 1 May 1856
         Detroit Free Press, 24 November 1869
         The Republican, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., 30 November 1869
         House Documents, Vol. 265, 1870 - p. 25