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    VESSEL NAME:   Venus
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   61088
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 October 1887
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, off Thunder Bay
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner-barge, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       S. R. Kirby, New Jerusalem, OH - 1872
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        Capt. James Thompson
    TONNAGE:       232.33 gt, 221.19 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    122.8 x 27.1 x 9
    CASUALTIES:    6 (all)

                   Was bound Grindstone City to Milwaukee carrying a
                 cargo of grindstones consigned to John Pritzlaff when she
                 got caught up by an autumn gale and foundered. Her
                 wreck was discovered in 2016 by shipwreck hunter David
                 Trotter.


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Sources: WZZM TV-13, Grand Rapids, MI, 26 October 2016
         Vessel Enrollment, 1882
         The Marine Record, 10 November 1887
         Great Lakes Maritime Collectin, Geo. N. Fletcher Pub. Library,
           Alpena Co., MI