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From: Jon Paul Van Harpen
Category: Shipwreck Research
Date: 02 Nov 2004
Time: 19:30:45
Remote Name: 208.49.32.17
Going over some research the other day I found this and thinking of Halloween I thought it was interesting. From the Advocate files dated January 14, 1899: "Of course it is only coincidence, but it is related by a contemporary as being interesting. A sea captain relates that right after the steamer Portland was built he received a picture of her. It was framed and covered with glass and quite heavy. He hung it in his parlor and never took it down during these years. The Sunday the Portland went down, he and his wife were sitting in the parlor reading when suddenly the picture fell with a crash, smashing the glass into a thousand pieces." I could not find a ship called Portland in the Great Lakes prior to 1899 so as they say sea captain it could be an ocean going vessel.