Cornelia B. Windiate

The bowsprit is chained to the front of the wreck. It was damaged earlier, during the same trip, by a collision with another schooner in Lake Michigan. This probably contributed to the schooner foundering in Lake Huron, because they were unable to set forward sails and keep the bow from plunging in a following sea.

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