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    VESSEL NAME:   L. C. Woodruff
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   14609
    DATE OF LOSS:  1 November 1878
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Ashore
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 1/2 mile n. of the piers at White Lake
    RIG TYPE:      Bark, 3 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       F. N. Jones, Buffalo, NY - 1866
    OWNER(S):      Thomas Murphy, Cleveland
    MASTER:        Capt. James Lingham, Cleveland
    TONNAGE:       548.9 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    170 x 33 x 13
    CASUALTIES:    3 of 10

                   The L. C. WOODRUFF was bound from Chicago to Buffalo
                with a cargo of corn, and was near Milwaukee, when she
                ran into foul weather which quickly turned into a furious
                gale. Running, or being blown before it, the WOODRUFF
                came to anchor on the other side of the lake at the
                entrance to White Lake, MI. She slowly dragged toward
                the shore and struck bottom several hundred yards from
                the White River Light Station. There her anchor chain
                parted and she was blown about 1/2 mile further north and
                struck 150 yards from shore where the wind and waves
                ended her days.
                  In 1942, and again in 1974, the skeletal remains of
                a schooner appeared near the White Lake channel which
                were thought to be those of the L. C. WOODRUFF. In
                December, 2018, the old bones made another appearance.
                This time researchers from the Michigan Shipwreck
                Research Association were able to investigate and
                determined that the remains were likely that of the smaller
                schooner CONTEST than the WOODRUFF.


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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1874
         Buffalo Daily Courier - 28 March 1866
         Detroit Free Press - 2 November 1878
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. 1879
         WZZM TV 13 News, 13 December 2018