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    VESSEL NAME:    Silver Spray
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    116262
    DATE OF LOSS:   15 March 1911
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Stranded
    LOCATION:       Lake Erie, Cleveland, OH
    RIG TYPE:       Steam screw, fishing tug
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        at Buffalo, N.Y. - 1889
    OWNER(S):       John P. Harrington, Erie, PA
    MASTER:         Capt. James F. Purdy, Erie, PA
    TONNAGE:        111.98 gt, 83.28 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     83.8 x 16.8 x 5.2
    CASUALTIES:     8 (all)


                    SILVER SPRAY went down with all hands during a gale
                 that swept the lakes. She was raised the following June
                 and towed up the river to the docks at Great Lakes Towing
                 Co. where it was to be examined to ascertain if she could
                 be repaired and put back into commission as a fishing
                 tug. No further mention of her is found in Merchant Vessel
                 Lists.

                    This tiny little fishing tug almost caused an inter-
                 national incident in 1903 when it was thought she was fish
                 poaching in Canadian waters. Pursued, and fired upon, by
                 the Canadian revenue cutter PETREL, the "unterrified fish
                 pirate" arrived in port at Erie, PA., riddled with
                 bullets. Shortly aferward, as she lay in drydock at the
                 Empire Shipbuilding Co., she caught caught fire and
                 burned. Imagine that. Later rebuilt.
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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1896, 1904, 1909, 1910 (last year found)
         Buffalo Courier - 5 June 1911
         Syracuse Journal - 26 October 1903
         Buffalo Evening News - 26 October 1903