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    NAME: Silver Cloud
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    REASON: foundered
    DATE:  8 July 1891
    LOCATION: Lake Michigan, about 5 miles north of Milwaukee
    TYPE: schooner, two masted
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: at Sheboygan, WI, 1869
    OWNER: Theodore Plathner and others of Milwaukee, WI
    MASTER: Capt. Johnson
    TONNAGE: 96.94 gross
    LENGTH: 79.4 ft
    BEAM: 21.9 ft
    DEPTH: 6.3 ft
    CASUALTIES: 3
    SURVIVORS:  3

                  Bound from Bailey's Harbor to Milwaukee
                  with a cargo of cedar posts, the Silver
                  Cloud capsized near Milwaukee and the 
                  wreck beached about 2 miles from Milwaukee.
                  Captain Johnson, his wife and child were
                  drowned.  Three crewmen clung to the wreckage
                  until rescued by a tug from Milwaukee.

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Sources: U.S. Merchant Vessel List - 1891
         Port Huron Daily Times - 8 July 1891