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    VESSEL NAME:   Alice Richards
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   567
    DATE OF LOSS:  1910
    REASON:        Abandoned
    LOCATION:      -
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner-barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Jonah Richards & Jasper Hanson at Manitowoc, 1867
    OWNER(S):
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       285.81 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    147 x 27 x 10
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     -

               Built in 1867 as a 3 masted Bark and named for Alice
               Richards, born March 8, 1867 at Manitowoc.  A lady of many
               faces she was converted to a schooner; a steam screw and,
               finally, to a barge.
               
               Among her (mis)adventures:
               December, 1867 - (Bark) Ashore on Spectacle Reef & expected
                                to be a total loss.
               November, 1869 - (Bark) Ashore in Hammond's Bay
               September, 1871- (Bark) Dismasted on Lake Superior. Towed
                                to Chicago for repairs.
               October, 1873  - (Schooner) Collision with canal scow.
               August,  1878  - (Schooner) Lost her sails in a gale.
               October, 1885  - (Barge) Run into by the steam-barge that
                                 was attempting to take her in tow.
               October, 1890  - (Barge) Run into and sunk by the steam-
                                barge BUSINESS in the St. Clair river.
                                Raised.
                         1891 - 2 masts, 278 gt.       
               November, 1892 - Ashore at North Point, Alpena.  Cargo of
                                50,000 bushels of oats were a total loss.

               Repairs in 1874, '75, '78, '89 & '92.
               Doesn't appear in Inland Lloyds, 1907. Abandoned in 1910.
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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1870, '71,  '85
         House Documents - Vol. 265, 1870 - p. 28
         Annual Report of the Milwaukee Grain & Stock Exchange, 1873
         Record of American & Foreign Shipping - 1897, '98, '99, 1900
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1884 (Barge), 1888 (Barge)
         Annual Report U.S.L.S.S., 1886
         Beeson's Inland Marine Guide, 1891, '92 (Schooner), 1900 (Barge)
         Blue Book of American Shipping, 1899 & 1903 (Steamer)
         Greenwood "Namesakes 1910-1919," p. 246
         Wenstadt "Freighters of Manitowoc," p. 25
         Milwaukee Journal, 29 November 1892
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan