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    VESSEL NAME:   Our Son
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   19437
    DATE OF LOSS:  26 September 1930
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 40 miles Soutwest by west of Ludington
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Capt. Henry Kelly, Lorain, OH - 1875
    OWNER(S):      Winand Schlosser, of Milwaukee
    MASTER:        Capt. Fred Nelson
    TONNAGE:       720 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    182.1 x 35.1 x 13.75
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     7

                   Major rebuild in 1892; cost $10,000.
                   Bottom repaired at Buffalo, April, 1900
                   Sailed through the big storm of November, 1913,
                from the mouth of the Detroit River to Buffalo, N.Y.,
                in tow of the steamer C. H. GREEN.
                   The OUR SON was bound for Muskegon, MI., with a
                cargo of pulpwood for the Central Paper Co.  The old
                schooner took on an unhealthy thirst for Lake Michigan
                water as a furious gale swept the lake.  Within moments of
                hearing that there was a schooner in distress the Ludington
                Coast Guard launched their 36-foot life boat into the teeth
                of the gale.  Meanwhile, OUR SON had been spotted flying
                distress signals by the freighter WILLIAM NELSON.  In a
                daring maneuver Capt. C. H. Mohr brought NELSON alongside
                the sinking schooner and took aboard her entire crew.


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Sources: Ludington Daily News, 17 August 2002
         Ludington Sunday Morning News, 28 September, 1930
         Shelak, "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan" - pp. 9
         Merchant Vessel Lists - 1884, 1928, 1931
         Buffalo Morning Express, 17 April 1900