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    VESSEL NAME:   Louis Meeker
    OTHER NAME(s): (var. incl. - L., Louise, Louie, Lewis)
    OFFICIAL NO:   15873
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 August 1872
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, between Pentwater & Little Point Sable
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Hanson & Scove, Manitowoc, WI., - 1872
    OWNER(S):      Charles Lindgren, Chicago
    MASTER:        Capt. Frank R. West
    TONNAGE:       311 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    5
    SURVIVORS:     6

                   Struck by a sudden squall and thrown on her beam
                ends about ten miles from shore.  Was en route from Chicago
                to Buffalo with 22,000 bushels of wheat at the time.
                Survivors were picked up by the schooner W. O. BROWN and
                taken to Cheboygan.
                   VICTIMS:
                   Frank R. West, Captain
                   Robert West, 6-year-old son of the captain
                   E. Nelson
                   Frank Barker
                   (unknown) steward

                   SURVIVORS:
                   Charles E. Davis, first mate
                   Peter Danielson, second mate
                   Halver Thompson, seaman
                   Andrew Harts, seaman
                   John Ryng, seaman
                   Edward Erickson, passenger

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Sources: East Shore News (Pentwater, MI.), 6 September 1872
         Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1872 (Losses)
         Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan
         Wenstadt, "Freighters of Manitowoc" - 2007