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    VESSEL NAME:   Toledo
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   24112
    DATE OF LOSS:  29 September 1898
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, Portage Lake Ship Canal
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Peck & Masters, Cleveland, 1862
    OWNER(S):      John S. Grey, Detroit
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       622 (1862), 792.25 (1865), 579.46 (1891)
    DIMENSIONS:    181 x 31.5 x 10.58
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     not stated

                   Down bound with lumber and the barge SHAWNEE in tow
                when she became water-logged in a storm.  Crew took to the
                SHAWNEE and sailed to the canal where the steamer D. F.
                ROSE was engaged to tow the TOLEDO in.  Was in the process
                of lightering when the wind gained in intensity and work
                was halted.  TOLEDO broke up in the storm and became a
                total wreck which blocked a portion of the ship canal and
                was dynamited on November 10th.

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Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1900 - pp. 102
         Merchant Vessel List, 1898
         Port Huron Daily Times, 1 October 1898 & 10 November 1898
         
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