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    VESSEL NAME:   Henry Wheaton
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   none
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 October 1855
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, off Long Point Cut
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       built 1845 at Oswego
    OWNER(S):      -
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       200 g.t.
    LENGTH:        -
    BEAM:          -
    DEPTH:         -
    CASUALTIES:    1
    SURVIVORS:     not stated
                   
                   Built as a schooner of 200 g.t but is listed as
                a brig of 158 g.t. by 1854.   

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Sources: Old Shipping Days in Oswego, J. Leo Finn, 1972; p. 188
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 10 January 1846 (new vessel)
         The Democracy, Buffalo, N.Y., 28 February 1854
         History of the Great Lakes, J.B. Mansfield, 1899; p. 675