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    VESSEL NAME:   Water Witch
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  11 November 1863
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Sunk  
    LOCATION:      Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron
    RIG TYPE:      Steam Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Newport, MI - 1861
    OWNER(S):      Eber B. Ward
    MASTER:        Capt. George H. Ryder
    TONNAGE:       ?
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    17 - 20 (all)
    
                   Down bound from Chicago to Sarnia when she
                disappeared. The propeller B. F. WADE had left
                Chicago two days after the WATER WITCH. Her captain
                and one other vessel master reported sighting what
                they believed to be her upper works floating in the
                lake near the entrance to Saginaw Bay. It is believed
                that she sunk during a gale on the 11th.


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Sources: "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. II - J. B. Mansfield, 1899
          Detroit Free Press - 17 November 1863
          Chicago Tribune - 18 November 1863
          Goderich Signal - 24 November 1863