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Margaret A. Muir
A schooner built in 1872, lost on Lake Michigan in 1893. The record: “Sunk in storm, no hands lost 1893.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1893
Margaret A. Muir
Schooner · built 1872 · lost 1893
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Schooner
- Builder
- Jasper Hanson and H.M. Scove Shipyard
- Launched
- 1872
- Length
- 129 ft (39 m)
- Beam
- 26 ft (8 m)
- Tonnage
- 347.44
- Propulsion
- Sail
- Fate
- Sunk in storm, no hands lost 1893
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The story
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The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1890s
- SS Australasia1896 · fire
- SS Chicora1895 · foundered
- SS J. M. Allmendinger1895
- SS John V. Moran1899 · foundered
- SS L.R. Doty1898 · foundered
- SS W.H. Gilcher1892 · foundered
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Margaret A. Muir (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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