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    VESSEL NAME:   Stephen Bates
    OTHER NAME(s): sometimes seen Steven Bates or only as S. Bates
    OFFICIAL NO:   23341)
    DATE OF LOSS:  22 April 1883
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, five miles north of Grosse Point
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, clipper style, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Bates & Son, Manitowoc - 1856
    OWNER(S):      Capt. Wm. Bates
    MASTER:        Capt. F. Walsh
    TONNAGE:       139.17 t
    DIMENSIONS:    97 x 27 x 7
    CASUALTIES:    0 of 6

                   After losing her mainsail and rudder casting in an
                easterly gale Capt. Welsh dropped anchor in an attempt to
                ride it out. The BATES dragged ever nearer to the beach
                until, finally, it was decided to slip her anchors and make
                a run for the beach before dark. She stranded two or three
                hundred feet from the beach and swung round broadside to.
                The crew, five men and one woman, were assisted in making a
                safe landing by the life-saving crew at Evanston.
                   The BATES was carrying cedar posts, cordwood and ties
                from Horne's Pier to Chicago.


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Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, 26 April 1856
         Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, 1873, 1875 (wrong reg# - 22341)
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1884
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884 - notation "Went ashore '83"
         Door County Advocate - 10 May 1883
         Mansfield, J. B. "History of the Great Lakes"