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    VESSEL NAME:   Ostrich
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   18967
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 October 1892
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off the Manitou Islands
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo - 1856
    OWNER(S):      Capt. John McKay
    MASTER:        Capt. John McKay
    TONNAGE:       279.14 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    139.6 x 26.1 x 10.6
    CASUALTIES:    6 or 7 (all)

                   The OSTRICH cleared Milwaukee, light, on October 19
                to load hemlock lumber at Torch Lake and return to
                Milwaukee. She was caught, and wrecked, by a severe gale
                that tore across northern Lake Michigan on the 27th and
                28th. Historians speculate that the OSTRICH came in
                collision with the big steamer W. H. GILCHER, which was
                also lost in the same area at about the same time.


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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 10 May 1856
         Oswego Daily Palladium, 2 November 1892
         Buffalo Enquirer, 2 November 1892
         The Weekly Argus News, 29 October 1892
         Merchant Vessel List, 1891
         Shelak, Benjamin J. "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan" - 2003