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its sister ship Mautenee out of Bayfield, Wisconsin,
on Oct. 6, 1905. Their destination was Bay City, Michigan.
The Noquebay was carrying 600,000
board feet
of hemlock lumber, which was bound for lumberyards
in Buffalo, NewYork. Approximately 20 miles northeast of Bayfield,
the Noquebay caught fire in the forward part of the
ship, apparently around the
donkey boiler
. The crew was eating lunch in the
after
deckhouse
at the time, so no one noticed the flames until they
were widespread, and it was too late to fight the blaze.
The
Lizzie Madden turned toward Stockton Island, the
nearest landfall, in an effort to beach the burning vessel.
Meanwhile, the Noquebay's crew tossed approximately
175,000 board feet of lumber overboard before they had to
abandon the ship. It appears there was no loss of life.
The Noquebay
burned to the waterline and came to rest in Julian Bay near
Presque Isle Point on the east side of Stockton Island. The
Lizzie Madden and Mautenee went on to Sault
St. Marie, Ontario, where they wired to Buffalo that the Noquebay
and its cargo had burned.
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