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    VESSEL NAME:   Caroline Williams
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   5811
    DATE OF LOSS:  22 April 1884
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Fire  
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, abt. 10 mi. WSW of Big Point Sable
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, tug, tow boat
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       H. J. Williams, Buffalo - 1868
    OWNER(S):      Canfield Tug Line, Manistee, MI
    MASTER:        Capt. Charles Gnewuch, Manistee
    TONNAGE:       39.22 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    68.2 x 15.8 x 8.3
    CASUALTIES:    0 of 8
    
                   CAROLINE WILLIAMS was bound for Chicago with the
                 disabled schooner WATERTOWN* in tow when fire was
                 discovered in her coal bunker. Finding it impossible
                 to extinguish the rapidly spreading blaze, the crew
                 left the WILLIAMS and found refuge on the WATERTOWN.
                 The schooner was later towed into Pentwater by the 
                 tug ALBION.
                 
                 *One source says she was towing the scow MARSTON.


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Sources: The Ludington Record - 24 April 1884
         Detroit Free Press - 24 April 1884
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"
           biography of Capt. Charles Gnewuch
         Merchant Vessel List - 1881