Rambler (Schooner), aground, 2 Jun 1855
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RAMBLER Schooner, cargo lumber, lost anchor and went ashore at Michigan City. Got off. Property loss, $4,000
Buffalo Morning Express (casualty list)
Jan. 11, 1856
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The schooner RAMBLER went ashore Saturday morning at 2 o'clock, at Michigan City. Lost both anchors, mainsail and jib. She is loaded with lumber. -- Chicago Tribune
The Democracy, Buffalo
Thursday, June 7, 1855
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SCHOONER RAMBLER.-We were shown a dispatch on Saturday from Captain Packard,
which states that the schooner RAMBLER, which went ashore at Michigan City some weeks since, with a load of lumber, will be a total loss. Two steam pumps were set to work but were unable to free her. She had been stripped and abandoned.
The Democracy, Buffalo
Monday, June 25, 1855
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The schooner AUSTRALIA, which went ashore near Chicago in a late severe blow, has been got off and taken into that port for repairs.
The schooner RAMBLER, ashore in the same gale near Michigan City, has, we learn, been given up by the Underwriters.
Buffalo Daily Republic
Monday, June 25, 1855
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SCHOONER RAMBLER. -- This vessel which was beached a short distance from this port last spring, loaded with lumber, &c., was, after an ineffectual attempt to get her off, sold to the underwriters, July 31st., at public auction. For some six weeks thay have beeen busily engaged in raising the vessel, and on Friday last they succeeded in bringing her into the creek. --- Michigan City Enterprise
Buffalo Daily Republic
Thursday, September 20, 1855
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- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Clippings
- Notes
- Reason: aground
Lives: nil
Freight: lumber
Remarks: Got off
- Date of Original
- 1855
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- McN.W.822
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Indiana, United States
Latitude: 41.72726 Longitude: -86.91281
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- Donor
- William R. McNeil
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