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Title
Steamer Manistee
Creator
NULL

Institution
Loutit District Library

Subject
Manistee (Ship)

Subject
Steamboats -- Michigan, Lake

Subject
NULL

Item Number
LH01e019

Relation
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Type
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Format
jpeg

Description
This steamer was first named the Lora, then the Alice Stafford. She was renamed the Manistee and was being retrofitted at Johnston Brothers’ dock in Ferrysburg when she burned on Spring Lake early on the morning of June 24, 1914. No cause for the blaze was found. The loss was nearly $200,000 and two of the crew were injured. The Manistee broke away from the dock as she burned and drifted to a sandbar near the Savidge Landing, where she sank.

Steamer Manistee

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