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    VESSEL NAME:  William B. Davock
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO.: 204121
    DATE OF LOSS: 11 November 1940
    REASON:       Storm
    LOCATION:     Lake Michigan, off Little Point Sable Light
    RIG TYPE:     Propeller, bulk carrier
    HULL TYPE:    Steel
    BUILDER:      Great Lakes Engineering Works, St. Clair, MI - 1907
    OWNER(S):     Interlake Steamship Company, Cleveland, OH
    MASTER:       Capt. C. N. Allen
    TONNAGE:      4,468 gt
    DIMENSIONS:   420 x 52 x 23
    CASUALTIES:   32
    SURVIVORS:    0

     Wreckage discovered in May, 1972, 1.9 miles off Little Point Sable
     Light 210 ft water.

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Sources: Institute for Great Lake Research, Perrysburg, OH
         Merchant Vessel List, Loss Reported of American Vessels - 1942
         Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
         Shelak "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan"
         Ludington Daily News, 13 November 1940
         
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