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    VESSEL NAME:   Siscowit
    OTHER NAME(s): also seen as Siscawit or Sic-co-wit
    OFFICIAL NO:   none
    DATE OF LOSS:  25 December 1849
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Navigational error  
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, mouth of Chocolay River
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       ?
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        Capt. Jim Bendry
    TONNAGE:       50 t
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    None mentioned.
    
                   Her captain had taken on a cargo of oats at the Soo
                for delivery at Marquette. Instead of Marquette he
                headed her for L'Anse where he laid her up for the
                winter. Capt. Sam Moody and James Broadbent went on
                snowshoe from Marquette to L'Anse where, unwilling to
                allow their community to suffer for lack of the cargo,
                took forcible possession of the schooner and had her
                refitted as much as needed for the trip to Marquette.
                They cleared L'Anse on Christmas eve and arrived at
                Marquette on Christmas day. After unloading the cargo
                Captain Moody attempted to sail her into the mouth of
                the Chocolay river, but either from lack or water in
                the channel or too much ice (the temperature was -15°)
                he failed to make the river and the schooner went on
                the beach a few hundred feet southwest. In 1899 her
                hull was still buried in the sand there.


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Sources: L'Anse Sentinel, 29 January 1899
         Marine Record, 20 September 1900
         Marine Review, 19 December 1901