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Telescope The DOWS' foremast, with its square sails would require more attention than fore and aft sails. She couldn't change tacks as fast as a straight fore and after.. This may have caused her resorting a straight fore and after. This may have caused her resorting to a tow-line in less than ten years. She ran down and sank the three masted schooner CHARLES K. NIMS. near Point Pelee on the evening of September 10, 1881. This was but four months after she left the ways. An involved hearing was to be the result of that mishap, and while it seemed that the DOWS was at fault, the responsibility was divided in the judgement, in spite of the DOWS having been a half mile ahead of the NIMS on the same tack and to the leeward of the NIMS. Again the ill-fated DOWS was destined for trouble, for she then ran into and sank the schooner RICHARD MOTT, between the Foxes and Beaver Island. Four men were on the upper topsail yard, furling sail, at the time of the collision, and were thrown overboard when the foremast snapped at cap. The men were lost.. Following this accident, she was towed to port, shorn of her topmast and sails, and was given a barge rig.; Now free of the caprice of changing wind, the hard-to-handle spread of canvas she had carried on he five spars; with a strong sound hull,4 she should enjoy a long prosperous life at the end of a tow line. Her canvas would be used now only in fair winds, and it would require little attention. Captain Roach had on a crew of seven men who could handle her lines faster than 12 could when she was wind driven...but fate ruled otherwise. No long life lay ahead of the DOWS.. Her end came, even as a barge, and, what was worse, she was in deep water at anchors that were holding. The DETROIT FREE PRESS of November 30, 1889, reports her loss as follows: Corrigan's" big five masted DAVID DOWS is no more. She foundered in 42 feet of water, 10 miles southeast of Chicago at 3 PM this afternoon. The tug AURORA, which was towing the DOWS, and ADAMS, cast them adrift off this point last night and ADAMS, cast them adrift off this point last night, and ordered them to come to anchor. The DOWS had sprung a leak off Point Au Sable, and was rapidly filling up. To add to the horror of the situation the DOWS' donkey engine, which was working the pumps, gave out. Sea after sea boarded her, filling her hold through the strained seams of her deck. She came to an anchor off this point at 9 o'clock last night, her decks flush with water. When the Dunham wreckers came alongside her this morning they found her so far gone as to preclude all chances of saving her. The ADAMS was anchored two miles east of the DOWS and was in no wise injured. Seeing that the DOWS could not float much longer, her crew deserted her at 2:30 this afternoon. They had barely left her when she reared over on her beam ends, plunged her bow into the sea, and disappeared. When she reached the bottom she righted on her keel, and her five masts now showed above the water". She was built in 1881, was valued at $65,000, insured in Crosby and McDonald's pool for $60,000, and has an A-l rating in Lloyd's. Her owner, who is here, says she can be raised.