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    VESSEL NAME:   Zealand
    OTHER NAME(s): City of Chatham
    OFFICIAL NO:   (C)71152
    DATE OF LOSS:  6 November 1880
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Ontario, near Nicholson's Island
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Robertson, Hamilton, Ont., 1872
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Edward Zealand
    MASTER:        (same)
    TONNAGE:      402 t.
    DIMENSIONS:   150 x 30 x 11.6
    CASUALTIES:   14
    SURVIVORS:    0

     3 June 1873 - Caught fire while lying at the Great Western elevator
                   wharf, Hamilton, Ont., and, drifting away, burned to the
                   water's edge.  Raised, repaired and renamed in 1875.

 6 November 1880 - Bound Toronto to Montreal with flour and wheat when a
                   severe gale swept the lake.  Over the next several days
                   wreckage was reported by the MARY TAYLOR, MARIE ANNETTE
                   and others.  Her remains were found in 1899.




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Sources: Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes," Vol. 2, 1899 - pp. 212
         Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr 1872
         Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 11 November 1880
         Buffalo Morning Express, 26 May 1899
         Swayze "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992

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