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    VESSEL NAME:   Velocipede
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   25848
    DATE OF LOSS:  27 April 1877
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Unknown  
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Kenosha
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       J. Dickie, Menominee, MI - 1869
    OWNER(S):      Capt. John Davis, Racine
    MASTER:        Capt. John Davis
    TONNAGE:       10,12 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    39.60 x 11.00 x 4.3
    CASUALTIES:    2 (all)
    
                   Bound Racine, WI., to Muskegon, MI., empty when she
                 capsized. Reports were uncertain if the small vessel
                 had been run over by a larger vessel or capsized in 
                 the gale that blew that night. Her capsized wreck was
                 found on April 30 off Kenosha by the fishing tug EAGLE.


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Sources: Annual Report of the USLSS - 1877
         Wisconsin State Journal - 5 May 1877
         Daily Milwaukee News - 1 May 1877