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    VESSEL NAME:   Midnight
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   16438
    DATE OF LOSS:  17 November 1889
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, near Oscoda, MI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner-barge, 2 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Peck & Masters, Cleveland - 1856
    OWNER(S):      at Port Huron, MI
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:       287.78 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    135.7 x 26.2 x 11.1
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     ?

                   Along with the schooner MEARS was in tow of the
                propeller WILHELM, bound Cheboygan to Buffalo, when a gale
                set in.  The MIDNIGHT lost her deckload when off Thunder
                Bay and hung her red light to signal the WILHELM of her
                distress, which was ignored.  The next morning the tow line
                parted and both schooners went ashore, becoming a total
                loss.  Crews of both vessels rescued by the Life-Saving
                service with the exception of 1 man from the MEARS who died
                of exposure.


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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 3 May 1856
         Merchant Vessel List - 1883, 1885, 1889
         Bridgeport (CT) Morning News, 2 December 1889
         Saginaw Courier-Herald, 26 February 1891
         Telescope, Vol. 5-7, 1956 - pp. 14

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