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    NAME: Tribune
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    REASON: wrecked in storm
    DATE: 18 April 1848 
    LOCATION: Lake Michigan at Grand Traverse Bay
    TYPE: Schooner
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: at Chicago - 1847
    OWNER: Higginson, Foster & Co., Chicago
    MASTER: 
    TONNAGE: 276 gross
    LENGTH: 
    BEAM: 
    DEPTH: 
    CASUALTIES: 10
    SURVIVORS:  0

                   Bound down from Chicago with cargo of wheat
                   the Tribune went missing during the gale of
                   April 18, 1848.  Wreckage was found near
                   Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan, in November,
                   1849.
                   
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            Buffalo Daily Courier, May 20, 1848
            
                   The schooner Tribune is probably wrecked.
                   She left Chicago previous to the gale, with
                   a cargo of wheat.  Her small boat has been
                   washed ashore at Muskegon.  The Tribune was
                   new, and valued at $7,000, her cargo as much
                   more.  She was owned by Higginson, Foster &
                   Co., of Chicago, and insured.
                   
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            Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, November 12, 1849
            
                            A LOST SCHOONER FOUND
                            
                   We learn from the Milwaukee Sentinel, that
                   the schooner Tribune, which was lost a year
                   ago last April, and nothing known of her fate
                   has been recently discovered sunk, near the
                   North West Point of Great (sic) Traverse Bay
                   in 70 or 80 feet of water.  Her rigging haven
                   broken loose, some of it floats at the surface
                   of the water.  There being no lighthouse in
                   that vicinity, she struck on a dangerous reef
                   of rocks there, all on board perishing.  The
                   Indians say that a child floated ashore which
                   they buried.
                   
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            Buffalo Daily Republic, November 9, 1849
            
                   The Chicago Democrat announces the discovery
                   of the schooner Tribune, which was lost a year
                   ago last April near the North West pier of
                   Grand Traverse Bay, in 70 or 80 feet of water.
                   Some of her rigging haven broken loose, is
                   floating upon the surface of the water.  The
                   vessel it may be recollected struck upon a
                   dangerous reef of rocks and immediately sunk,
                   and all on board perished.
                   
                   
            

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Sources: Mansfield, John b. (ed. and compiler) History of the Great Lakes
          Chicago: J. H Beers and Co., 1899
          
         Various newspaper articles as shown above.