Shipwreck · Lake Huron · Collision
M. F. Merrick
A wooden two‑masted schooner built in 1863, wrecked on Lake Huron. The record: “Collided and sunk in Lake Huron off Presque Isle.”
Lost on Lake Huron
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M. F. Merrick
Wooden two‑masted schooner · built 1863
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Wooden two‑masted schooner
- Builder
- John Oades
- Launched
- 1863
- Length
- 139 ft (42 m)
- Beam
- 26 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 295 GRT
- Crew
- 7 (5 lost)
- Fate
- Collided and sunk in Lake Huron off Presque Isle
- Lake
- Lake Huron
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article M. F. Merrick (schooner), retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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