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    VESSEL NAME:    Novadoc
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    (C)149465
    DATE OF LOSS:   11 November 1940
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Stranded
    LOCATION:       Lake Michigan, near Pentwater
    RIG TYPE:       Propeller
    HULL TYPE:      Steel
    BUILDER:        Swan, Hunter & Richardson, Wallsend-on-tyne,
                    Great Britain - 1928
    OWNER(S):       Paterson Steamships Ltd.
    MASTER:         Capt. Steip
    TONNAGE:        1934 gt
    DIMENSIONS:     252.66 x 43.25 x 17.66
    CASUALTIES:     2 of 19

                    Bound from Chicago to Port Alfred, Ont., with a cargo
                 of powdered coke, and running close to the east shore when
                 the wind began to shift and roared to a gale. It was too
                 late to cross to the other shore. Capt. Steip attempted to
                 put her bow to the wind but Lake Michigan shows no extra
                 respect for foreign vessels and elbowed her closer and
                 closer to the shore. She was finally shoved hard aground
                 off Juniper Beach, north of Little Point Sable lighthouse.
                 Seventeen surviving crewmen were taken off by the old
                 fishing tug, THREE BROTHERS II.

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Sources: Ludington Daily News - 13, 14 & 15 November 1940
         Green's Directory - 1936, 1939
         USGenNet Data Repository - 1940 Storm