The John M Osborn’s career as a wooden steam barge lasted just two years. She sank in 1884 with the loss of five lives when the larger, steel-hulled Alberta, which was called a “steel monster" and "terror of the lakes", rammed Osborn. The wreck of the Osborn was discovered 100 years after her sinking. The wreck was illegally salvaged in the 1980s. Many of Osborn’s artifacts became the property of the State of Michigan after they were seized from Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.
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