Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Abbie OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 106407 DATE OF LOSS: 8 November 1905 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Manistee, Portage Lake entry RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 masts HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Alexander Butters, Ludington, MI - 1886 OWNER(S): - MASTER: - TONNAGE: 87 g.t. LENGTH: 88 ft BEAM: 22 ft DEPTH: 6 ft CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 4 Named in honor of Abbie Scott, wife of H. L. Scott, collector of the port of Ludington. Bound from Beaver for Milwaukee with a load of bark when driven ashore in a storm. Captain & crew rescued by the Manistee Lifesaving Service and the lighthouse keeper. ======================================================================== Sources: Ludington Daily News, 28 September 1996 Marine Record, 17 June 1886 Merchant Vessel List, 1901