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    VESSEL NAME:   Interlaken
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   100554
    DATE OF LOSS:  2 October 1934
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, north of Whitehall
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 masts
                  (converted to a barge, and 1 mast removed, in 1913)
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       A. Smith & Co., Algonac, 1893
    OWNER(S):      I. Jack Lyons, Lyons Construction Co.
    MASTER:        Capt. Matthew Overogg
    TONNAGE:       567 gt, 538 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    170 x 34.2 x 11
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   INTERLAKEN was in tow of the tug FRED C. GERTLING,
                bound North Manitou for White Lake, and fighting heavy
                seas, when the tug ran low on fuel and cast off the
                INTERLAKEN. The tug made it safely to port but the 41 year
                old schooner-barge succumbed to the pounding seas. Her crew
                were taken off by the Coast Guard.

                   Her wreckage was first spotted from the air by Doug
                Freye and his son Jonathan who both dove to investigate
                a few days later.

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Sources: Port Huron Daily Times, 13 April 1893
         The Muskegon Chronicle, 15 December 2003
         Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, 21 January 2005