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    VESSEL NAME:   Rosa Belle
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   21302
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 October 1921
    REASON:        Unknown
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Milwaukee
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2-mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Boole, Milwaukee, WI., - 1863
    OWNER(S):      House of David, Benton Harbor, MI
    MASTER:        Captain Erhart Gliese
    TONNAGE:       131.99 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    100 x 26 x 10
    CASUALTIES:    11
    SURVIVORS:     0

                   Beached and badly damaged at Grand Haven during the fall
                of 1875.  Was reported as a total loss but was purchased by
                Squire & White and rebuilt.  Given a class of B1.
                   At one time owned by John Kane of Sheboygan, WI., who
                purchased her in for $450 in 1907.  Kane sold her to the
                House of David Colony in 1918.  At that time it was
                reported she was the last sail vessel working out of
                Sheboygan.
                   The ROSA BELL was bound High Island to Benton Harbor
                loaded with lumber and potatoes.  She was found capsized in
                mid-lake by the Ann Arbor car ferry No. 4 with her stern
                torn off.  Towed to the beach near Racine and abandoned by
                her owners.
                   Bits of her wreckage came ashore near Racine in 1929
                following a storm so severe that it claimed the big
                carferry MILWAUKEE.

                Casualty List:
                Erhart Gliese, captain
                Charles Anderson, first mate
                Waldemar Frederickson, second mate
                Alvin Winder, seaman
                Edgar Marshall, seaman
                Jake Vonmoulken, seaman
                Robert Dauley, seaman
                C. Daley, seaman
                L. Nye, seaman
                Cecil Claudel, seaman
                Edwin Wilson, seaman

                * Rebuilds in 1874 & 1876
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Sources: Lewiston Evening Journal, 26 October 1929
         Merchant Vessel List, 1884
         Beeson's Inland Marine Guide- 1891, 1892
           (*gives build year as 1853 in both)
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884
         Detroit Tribune, 15 April 1876
         Sheboygan Press-Telegram, 2 November 1921
         The Milwaukee Sentinal, 5 February 1962

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