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    VESSEL NAME:    Asia
    OTHER NAME(s):  --
    OFFICIAL NO:    --
    DATE OF LOSS:   5 Sept 1866
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Grounded 
    LOCATION:       Lake Huron, Spectacle Reef
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        At Port Dalhousie, abt 1865
    OWNER(S):       Muir Brothers, Chicago
    MASTER:         Capt. James Nicholson
    TONNAGE:        abt 400 t
    DIMENSIONS:     ?
    CASUALTIES:     None
    
                    Upbound with 600 tons of coal from Erie to Chicago 
                  when she went on Spectacle Reef. Efforts to free her 
                  by the tug George W. Wood failed but they did succeed 
                  in saving about 150 tons of coal.
                    
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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier - 16 Oct. 1866 "built at Port Dalhousie
                                 less than two years since."
         Buffalo Daily Courier - 12 & 14 Sept 1866
         Buffolo Comercial Advertiser - 27 Sept 1866
         National Republican, Washington, D.C. - 27 April 1866
                                 schooner Asia, of Chicago issued American
         Detroit Free Press - 12 Sept 1866
                                 register.
         Chicago Tribune - 11 Oct 1866