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    VESSEL NAME:   Peshtigo
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   19663
    DATE OF LOSS:  26 June 1878
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision  
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 10 mi east of Beaver Island light
    RIG TYPE:      Bark, 3 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       T. Spears, Peshtigo, WI - 1863
    OWNER(S):      A. English, Chicago
    MASTER:        Capt. Lynch
    TONNAGE:       385 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    160.6 x 33 x 12.3
    CASUALTIES:    2

                   Bound Buffalo to Chicago with coal when she ran
                 into the schooner ST. ANDREW, bound down with corn,
                 sinking both vessels. The ST. ANDREW was raised and
                 repaired but PESHTIGO was a total loss.
                 
                   Often called a schooner. All Merchant Vessel Lists
                 have her as a bark (Bk). USLSS report of 1878 calls
                 her an "American schooner".

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Sources: Annual Report of the USLSS - 1878
         Merchant Vessel List - 1871, '74, '77
         Merchant Vessel List - 1881 (still shows St. Andrews 22416)
         The Superior Times - 13 July 1878
         Port Huron Times Herald - 28 June 1878
         Buffalo Morning Express - 27 June 1878
         Cleveland Herald - 28 June 1878