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dc.contributor.author Unknown en_US
dc.coverage.spatial Great Lakes en_US
dc.coverage.temporal ca. 1867 -- 1894 en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-09-23T10:09:24Z
dc.date.available 2008-09-23T10:09:24Z
dc.date.created n.d. en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-09-23T10:09:24Z
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.BGSU/1224
dc.description The ROANOKE was built in 1867 by Ira LaFrinnier at Cleveland, OH U.S. The Roanoke is a wood hulled propeller driven vessel with a length of 217 feet, and a width of 31 feet. It displaces 1069 tons, and has a load capacity of 956 tons. The vessel was removed from service with the following notation: Burned and sank twenty miles off Fourteen Mile Point, Lake Superior, on August 7, 1894. Crew rescued from lifeboats the following day by propeller GEORGE SPENCER. Vessel was bound from Port Huron, MI, for Duluth, MN, with cargo of salt at time of loss. The photograph shows the Roanoke under way on the Great Lakes. More information about this vessel is available at the <a href="http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page39984.html">HCGL Website</a> en_US
dc.language en_US en_US
dc.relation.ispartof HCGL Main Photograph Collection en_US
dc.rights World en_US
dc.rights.uri http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page41430.html en_US
dc.subject.lcsh ships -- great lakes -- n. america en_US
dc.subject.lcsh ships -- great lakes -- Ohio en_US
dc.title Roanoke en_US
dc.type 4 x 6 Black & White Print en_US
dc.contributor.repository Historic Collections of the Great Lakes en_US
dc.contributor.repository Historical Collections of the Great Lakes / Center for Archival Collections en_US
dc.publisher.digital Historical Collections of the Great Lakes en_US
dc.date.digitized 03/08/2000 en_US
dc.equipment.digitizing HP Scanjet 6200C en_US
dc.relation.hasformat Photographic Print en_US
dc.contributor.institution Bowling Green State University en_US

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