The steamer North Star, a steel propeller-driven package freighter built on February 12, 1889 by Glove Iron Works in Cleveland, Ohio, collided at 5 A.M. on November 25, 1908, with the steamer Northern Queen off Port Sanilac, Michigan. Under Captain D.L. Cartwright, North Star was bound from Duluth to Buffalo with wheat, flour, and shingles, while under Captain William Stevenson, Northern Queen was steaming from Buffalo to Duluth with iron pipe. North Star was fatally damaged, its crew transferred by lifeboat to Northern Queen before North Star sank. Northern Queen returned to Port Huron for temporary repairs. The total loss of vessel and cargo was estimated at a quarter million dollars. North Star now lies upright in one hundred feet of water, broken into two parts with its bow to the west, 4.6 miles east-southeast of Port Sanilac Harbor, and Northern Queen was cut in half and taken to the east coast in 1917 before being scrapped in Genoa, Italy, in 1925.