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    VESSEL NAME:   Lydia
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   140056
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 October 1905
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 1/2 mi. S. of the Manistee life-saving
                   station.
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Rand & Burger, Manitowoc - 1874
    OWNER(S):      Thomas W. Morse, Muskegon - out of Grand Haven
    MASTER:        Capt. Seather
    TONNAGE:       83.92 gt - 79 nt
    DIMENSIONS:    80 x 20.9 x 6.8
    CASUALTIES:    0 of 3

                   Driven ashore by one of the several destructive storms
                that hammered the Great Lakes during October & November of
                1905. Crew rescued by the Manistee life-savers by use of
                the breeches buoy.


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Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1906
         Ludington Record-Appeal, 26 October 1905
         Ludington Chronicle, 13 December 1905
         Marine Review, Vol 32., 1905
         Merchant Vessel Lists - 1877, 1903