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    VESSEL NAME:   Cream City
    OTHER NAME(s): Rhoda Emily (renamed 1913)
    OFFICIAL NO:   110641
    DATE OF LOSS:  1 July 1918
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded  
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, Wheeler's Reef
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       John Craig, Trenton, MI - 1884
    OWNER(S):      James Andrews Trans. Co., Escanaba, MI
    MASTER:        Capt. Farley
    TONNAGE:       570 gt, 416 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    166 x 32 x 12
    CASUALTIES:    0
    
                   CREAM CITY and her two consorts, the GRACE HOLLAND
                and JOHN A. FRANCOMB, were flying light and bound for
                Manitoulin Island, Ont., for pulp wood when the CREAM
                CITY struck Wheeler's Reef, about half a mile south of
                False Detour Channel. A 60 mile gale was blowing from
                the westward at the time and, getting in the trough
                of the sea, her iron rudder snapped off.
                   After waiting twenty-four hours for the sea to
                calm her crew went ashore to a small island where
                they made camp in tents for five days.
                   CREAM CITY was badly broken up forward of the
                boiler house and was abandoned to the underwriters.
                
                   During the great storm of 1913 the RHODA EMILY
                was ashore in Harbor of Refuge at Harbor Beach, MI.,
                when a large portion of the breakwater gave way.
                Rebuilt by Great Lakes Engineering works, Detroit.
                
                   1885 - Aground at Cove Island.
                   1888 - Ashore above Point Hope
                   1889 - Ashore at White Rock
                   1896 - Sold by L. A. Hunt, Saginaw, to C. R.
                          Jones, Cleveland
                   1913 - Ashore at Harbor Beach, MI
                   1914 - Rebuilt at Great Lakes Engineering Works
                          


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Sources: R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1888
         Marine Record, 4 October 1888
         Blue Book of American Shipping, 1903
         Sturgeon Bay Advocate, 12 February 1914
         Sturgeon Bay Advocate, 13 July 1918
         The Sheboygan Press, 13 July 1918
         The Marine Record, 10 July 1884