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    VESSEL NAME:   Vulcan
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   25760
    DATE OF LOSS:  7 June 1883
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, 2 mi. below Cedar Point
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, tug, tow boat
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Campbell & Owen, Detroit, 1868
    OWNER(S):      Alger, Smith & Co., Detroit
    MASTER:        Capt. W. H. Rolls
    TONNAGE:       249.43 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    134.6 x 21.4 x 10.7
    CASUALTIES:    0 of 14

                   Called one of the finest and most powerful tugs on
                 fresh water, VULCAN was bound for Cleveland with a large
                 raft of logs in tow when fire broke out in her engine room
                 and spread rapidly. The crew attempted to extinguish the
                 flames before making their escape in the yawl which,
                 itself, was badly burned. Burning hull towed to Vermillion
                 by the tug CHARLES KELLOGG.
                   The following October her hull was raised and her
                 machinery salvaged.


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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1871, 1881
         Inland Seas Quarterly Journal, Vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1955
         Chicago Tribune - 8 June 1883
         Detroit Free Press - 8 June 1883
         Inter Ocean - 11 June 1883