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Mary Margaret (1945 Beaver Island FFA outing)

Also Mary Margaret

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeVessel
ErasModern era

Summary

The Mary Margaret is the ship named in a May 1945 report as the vessel that carried the East Jordan FFA outing party back from Beaver Island.1

Evidence and limits

This is a source-qualified vessel record. The held report supplies only the name, the 1945 outing connection, and the description “good ship.” It does not establish the vessel’s registry identity, type, dimensions, owner, operator, route, or relationship to any later or similarly named mail boat.

Open questions

  • Which vessel was the 1945 Mary Margaret, and who operated it?
  • Are school, ferry, Coast Guard, or local newspaper records available for its service?

See also

Footnotes

  1. Charlevoix County Herald, May 11, 1945, “East Jordan’s FFA Lads Have Enjoyable Outing At The Beaver Islands.” ↩

Sources

  1. Charlevoix County Herald, May 11, 1945, “East Jordan’s FFA Lads Have Enjoyable Outing At The Beaver Islands.”
    Says the seven boys, teacher, and outing party returned from Beaver Island on the Mary Margaret and calls it a good ship; no technical vessel details are supplied.
    charlevoix · Charlevoix_County_Herald_1945-05-11