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    VESSEL NAME:   Mistress
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   222610
    DATE OF LOSS:  3 March 1941
    REASON:        Storm (missing)
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, between Pentwater, MI. & Racine, WI.
    RIG TYPE:      Fish tug, diesel powered, 36 HP
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Manitowoc, WI., - 1922
    OWNER(S):      Charles Jensen
    MASTER:        (same)
    TONNAGE:      14 gt
    DIMENSIONS:   38.7 x 10.6 x 4
    CASUALTIES:   2
    SURVIVORS:    0

                  Charles Jensen had just purchased the MISTRESS from
               William DeYoung and was taking her to her new home in
               Milwaukee when she disappeared in a Lake Michigan storm.
                  The MISTRESS left Pentwater harbor at 2 a.m. Monday,
               March 3, in clear weather on what should have only been
               an eight hour trip.  About five hours later a gale lashed
               Lake Michigan with 45 mile an hour winds.  Aboard the
               MISTRESS were Charles Jensen (owner) and H. Clair Graham,
               both of Milwaukee.
                  When the MISTRESS failed to make port at Milwaukee on
               Tuesday the Coast Guard sent the cutters HOLLYHOCK, ESCANABA
               and a seaplane out in search of her.
                  The MISTRESS was never found.  The bodies of Jensen and
               Graham came ashore at Racine, Wis.

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Sources: The Milwaukee Journal, Wednesday, 5 March 1941
         The Milwaukee Sentinel, Thursday, 6 March 1941
         Merchant Vessel List, 1942 (Losses)