Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

         Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

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:   Altadoc (given 1926)
    OTHER NAME(s): Lake Shore (1901), Indus (1913)
    OFFICIAL NO:   (Can) 116577
    DATE OF LOSS:  8 December 1927
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Superior, Keweenaw Point
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       West Bay City, MI - 1901
    OWNER(S):      Paterson Steamships, Ltd.
    MASTER:        Capt. R. D. Simpson
    TONNAGE:       3,871 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    365 x 50 x 28
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     25

                   Steering geer was smashed during a gale and she
                was flung ashore on Keweenaw Point.  Four of the crew
                took to the life boat and managed to make Calumet.
                   Crew taken off by the Eagle Harbor Coast Guard,
                making two trips.  On the second trip the surfboat
                became stuck in the ice while returning to Copper Harbor.
                All aboard were taken off by the Coast Guard cutter
                CRAWFORD from Two Harbors, Minnesota, which had been
                summoned earlier by Boatswain Anthony F. Glaza.
                   The ALTADOC, her back broken, was left until cut up
                for scrap in 1942.  Her pilothouse was used as a gift shop
                and little two-room hotel at Copper Harbor for several
                years following.

 ========================================================================
Sources: Merchant Vessel List, 1914
         Ottawa (Can.) Citizen - 9 December 1927
         Reading (PA) Eagle - 10 December 1927
         Barry "Wrecks and Rescues of the Great Lakes," pp. 72-76