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    VESSEL NAME:   Albion
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  7th or 8th October 1858
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Erie, about 10 mi. off Erie, PA
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Doolittle & Mollison, Oswego, N.Y. - 1848
    OWNER(S):      Doolittle, Irwin & Wright, Oswego
    MASTER:        Capt. A. Robertson
    TONNAGE:     215.93 t.
    DIMENSIONS:  115 x 21 x 9
    CASUALTIES:  8
    SURVIVORS:   0

                 Enroute from Cleveland to Buffalo with wheat when a
              terrible storm swept Lake Erie.  About October 4th discovered
              a large fore-and-aft schooner sunk in about 75 feet of water
              with her masts sticking out of the water and all sails set.

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Sources: Oswego Commercial Times, 5 October 1848
         Directory of Buffalo, N.Y. - 1849
         Buffalo Daily Courier, 19 October 1858
         Buffalo Daily Republic - 20 & 21 October 1858