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    VESSEL NAME:   Walter B. Allen
    OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen only as W. B. Allen
    OFFICIAL NO:   26561
    DATE OF LOSS:  16 April 1880
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 7 miles north of Sheboygan, WI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, two-mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       N. C. Pearsons, Ogdensburg, N.Y. - 1866
    OWNER(S):     ?
    MASTER:       ?
    TONNAGE:      296.15 gt
    DIMENSIONS:   136.8 x 26.2 x 11.1
    CASUALTIES:   0
    SURVIVORS:    11

                  While being towed to Manitowoc for repairs, by the tug
               CAROLINE WILLIAMS, the pair were overtaken by a gale and
               blinding snow storm.  Enormous seas swept over the schooner
               and, when it became obvious that she would founder, Capt.
               Gnewuch, at great risk to his own vessel, ran the tug
               WILLIAMS up alongside five times, taking men off the
               schooner with each run, until the entire crew was rescued.

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Sources: Inland Seas, Vol. 33, Issue 1 - 1977, pp. 30
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, Library of Michigan
         Merchant Vessel List, 1877
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1881, pp. 84