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    VESSEL NAME:   Thomas W. Palmer
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   145513
    REASON:        Collision
    DATE OF LOSS:  16 May 1905
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior; 40 miles off Copper Harbor, abt 30 miles
                   past Manitou Island light.
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Composite
    BUILDER:       Detroit Dry Dock, 1889
    OWNER(S):      William Livingstone, of Detroit
    MASTER:        George V. Stilthen
    TONNAGE:       2,134 gt
    LENGTH:        281 ft
    BEAM:           41 ft
    DEPTH:          20 ft
    CASUALTIES:      0
    SURVIVORS:      19

                   April 28, 1891 - Grounded at the lower end of Lake
                   George flats. Released next day.
                   
                   July 1893 - slight damage in collision with steamer
                   RUSSIA.

                   Bound from Ashland, WI., to Cleveland, OH., loaded
                   with ore the THOMAS W. PALMER was struck hard on
                   the port bow, and nearly cut in two, by the steamer
                   HARVARD in a dense fog when about 40 miles off Copper
                   Harbor, Lake Superior.  Before the vessels separated
                   the crew of the PALMER jumped aboard the HARVARD,
                   wasting no time to gather any effects.  As the HARVARD
                   backed away water rushed to fill the gaping hole and
                   the PALMER sank within 5 minutes.

                   Not knowing how badly the HARVARD had been damaged
                   the captain signaled the nearby G. WATSON FRENCH
                   and transferred the crew of PALMER to her for safety.
                   
                   Upon investigation the pilot's license of Carleton
                   D. Secord and the first class pilot's license of
                   Benjamin Broderick, aboard the HARVARD, were each
                   suspended for 60 days.


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Sources:  Buffalo Enquirer, 31 July 1893
          Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
          Detroit Free Press, 18 May 1905
          Report of the Steamboat Inspection Service, 1906