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    VESSEL NAME:   Hattie A. Estelle
    OTHER NAME(s): Mary L. Higgie (renamed 1889)
    OFFICIAL NO:   90461
    DATE OF LOSS:  17 November 1891
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Manistee
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 masted
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Hanson & Scove, Manitowoc, WI - 1873
    OWNER(S):      Captain Delbert Estelle
    MASTER:        Captain Delbert Estelle
    TONNAGE:       310.57 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    138 x 26.3 x 11.2
    CASUALTIES:    3
    SURVIVORS:     4

                    Bound Chicago to Buffalo with a cargo of wheat when
                 a savage northwest gale blew in.  With three feet of water
                 in the hold and the pumps broken Captain Estelle
                 desperately attempted to seek shelter at Manistee harbor.
                 The crew, benumbed by the cold were unable to raise the
                 centerboard and the schooner ran onto the bar just outside
                 the piers.  The raging seas smashed against the schooner
                 again and again, driving it hard onto the beach with her
                 starboard quarters exposed to the full fury of the storm
                 and breaking her in two.  The captain and cook had
                 remained aft and were lost despite repeated attempts by
                 the Life-saving service to rescue them.  Also lost was
                 seaman Albert Davis who had become entangled in the anchor
                 gear and broken his leg.


                 Victims:
                 Delbert Estelle, captain, from Chicago
                 Annie McGovern, cook, from Buffalo
                 Albert Davis, seaman, from Port Hope

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Sources: Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes," Vol. I
         Ludington Daily News, 12 November, 1930
         Ludington Daily News, 23 December 1953
         Ludington Daily News, 21 December 1956
         The Toledo Evening Bee, 18 November 1891
         Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1892
         Merchant Vessel List - 1891
         Wenstadt "Freighters of Manitowoc" - p. 37


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