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    VESSEL NAME:   D. S. Austin
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   6745
    DATE OF LOSS:  7 November 1898
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Ludington
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Toledo, OH. - 1872
    OWNER(S):      Samuel & Sidney Neff, Milwaukee
    MASTER:        Captain Hawgood Nelson
    TONNAGE:     281 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  135.2 x 26 x 13
    CASUALTIES:  0
    SURVIVORS:   7

                 In tow of the steam-barge EDWIN S. TICE when her tow
              line broke upon entering Ludington Harbor seeking shelter
              from a storm.  Dragging her anchor she was swept north of the
              pier, broadside to the beach.  Crew taken off by the
              Ludington life-savers in the surfboat.
                 The Austin had "visited" this beach in November, 1894 and
              again in the following spring.

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Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1900 - pp. 127
         The Ludington Appeal, 10 November 1898
         Merchant Vessel List, 1898