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            TWELVE WORST MARITIME DISASTERS IN GREAT LAKE HISTORY
                    (based on number of casualties)

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11. Seabird:  Burned
    Date:  April 9, 1868
    Location: Lake Michigan, off Waukegan, IL
    Casualties: 68 - 103*
    Type: side-wheel steamer - passenger
    Hull Type: Wooden
    Owner: Goodrich Line
    Master: Capt. John Morris
    Tonnage: 638


Three known survivors, all passengers; C. A. Chamberlain, Edwin Hanneberry
(rescued by the schooner Cordelia) and James H. Leonard (climbed onto
wreckage and washed ashore three miles north of Evanston, IL).  Fire was
caused by a porter throwing hot coals overboard into the wind which then
blew back onto the boat.



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Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes" , Dana Thomas Bowen, 1952
         "History of the Great Lakes" Vol 2., 1899
         "Norwegian Sailors on the Great Lakes", Knut Gjerset, 1979