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    VESSEL NAME:   Empire State
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   (C)7816
    DATE OF LOSS:  8 November 1877
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, near North Point, Thunder Bay
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       L. Shickluna, St. Catherines, Ont., - 1862
    OWNER(S):      J. D. Rothwell
    MASTER:        Archie McHenry
    TONNAGE:       317 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   Downbound with iron ore for Cleveland when she struck.
                Her crew spent the night in the rigging and were taken off
                by two fishermen in a clinker boat the next day.


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Sources: Oswego Daily Times, 14 November 1877
         Report of the Chief Signal Officer, 1878
         Chicago Inter Ocean, 3 July 1878
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes" - 1899
         Swayze, David D. "Shipwreck!" - 1992