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    VESSEL NAME:    Alfred P. Wright
    OTHER NAME(s):  Sometimes seen only as A. P. Wright
    OFFICIAL NO:    106539
    DATE OF LOSS:   16 November 1915
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Fire
    LOCATION:       Lake Superior, Portage Entry
    RIG TYPE:       Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        Thomas Quayle & Sons, Cleveland - 1888
    OWNER(S):       home port Duluth
    MASTER:         Capt. George E. Benham
    TONNAGE:        2,207 gt, 1889 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     286 x 41.42 x 22.25
    CASUALTIES:     0

                    Downbound with wheat when she was forced to seek
                 shelter in Portage Ship Canal. A fire broke out in her
                 coal bunkers and she burned to the water's edge. The
                 undamaged portion of her cargo was sold by the under-
                 writers to the Brooks Elevator Co., Minneapolis. Her hull
                 was towed to deeper water and sunk.

                    She found the bottom of the river just below Rush
                 street bridge at Chicago on her maiden voyage. As she was
                 pulled off she swung around and her stern collided with
                 the steamer PEERLESS, carrying away thirteen stanchions
                 and about 45 feet of the upper rail.

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Sources: Marine Record, 31 May 1888
         Marine Review, Vol. 46, February 1916
         Merchant Vessel List - 1914, 1915
         Annual Report of the Lake Carriers' Association, 1915
         Buffalo Courier, 17 November 1915
         Buffalo Express, 30 November 1915