The bow crashed into the stone dock, causing extensive damage to the bottom of the ship or its keel, its body, also known as the hull. It also damaged the docking quay. The anchor was also dropped ...

The vessel, the Sam Laud, moored at the Wirt Stone Dock in Bay City, where it unloaded a cargo of stone, likely to be used at nearby Michigan Sugar. It then continued upriver, delivering the rest ...