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The Hero of the Conductor (1854)

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In Walter Stevens Harrington’s Heroines of Canadian History, published in 1909, the plight of the crew of the Conductor was described as follows: “All night the eight victims of the storm clung to such treacherous foothold as they could gain. Daylight still found them battling for their lives. The sea had not abated. The huge waves came roaring towards them, and, as though bitterly disappointed at their inability to reach the chilled mariners upon their insecure footing, they angrily dashed the spray over them, so that their clothing soon was saturated with the ice-cold water.” Ship Name: Conductor Year Built: 1849Ship Type: Three-Masted SchoonerTonnage: 250 tonsNationality: Canada Year Wrecked: 1854Location Wrecked: Long Point Island, Lake Erie Reason for Wreck: Diven Ashore in Storm Lives Lost: None Sources: https://greatlakeships.org/2907686/datahttps://www.marshcollection.org/wp-content/uploads/SoundingsVolV1-Number1.pdfhttps://books.google.com/books?id=yTgQt2EYftoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker+poem&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books/about/Women_the_Lakes.html?id=PpGBAAAAMAAJhttps://books.google.com/books?id=FUgdAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=KYxs-veYXowC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=waI5AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Abigail+Becker+1854+parliament+canada&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=3l5QNSVJBAcC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=92U-AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=8YgfAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=J6zgqHnAaUwC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=IUowAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=3Z0sAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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