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    VESSEL NAME:   Saltillo
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  25 November 1853
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision
    LOCATION:      St. Clair River
    RIG TYPE:      Brigantine
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Sackett's Harbor - 1847
    OWNER(S):      J. R. Huguinn, Chicago
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       240 t (om)
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    none mentioned.

                   Sunk near the rapids following a collision with the
                 schooner TRADE WIND. Years later efforts were made by
                 divers Harrington & Phillips to raise the old wreck but
                 were abandoned in August, 1869. Work to salvage her cargo
                 of railroad iron began in 1872.
                   She had been run into and sunk on the St. Clair Flats
                 by the propeller MANHATTEN in 1847.
                   Possibly built as a brigantine and later changed rig.
                 Available records and newspaper accounts show her as a
                 schooner.

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Sources: Pentwater News, 13 June 1873
         The (Utica) Daily Gazette - 1 December 1853
         Buffalo Courier & Republic, 28 August 1869
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser Directory - 1849
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"