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    VESSEL NAME:   Search Light
    OTHER NAME(s): (also seen as Searchlight)
    OFFICIAL NO:   116912
    DATE OF LOSS:  23 April 1907
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Huron, off Harbor Beach, MI
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, fishing tug
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       West Bay City, MI, 1899
    OWNER(S):      Levi Brown & Sons, Harbor Beach, MI
    MASTER:        Capt. Walter Brown
    TONNAGE:       9 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    40 x 10.5 x 3.7
    CASUALTIES:    6
    SURVIVORS:     0

                   The SEARCH LIGHT was on her way back to port from the
                fishing grounds when last seen before being struck by a
                furious northwest gale.  A search conducted by the life-
                savers turned up only small pieces of wreckage and fish
                boxes from the missing tug.

                   Following the big storm of 1913 it was reported that
                wreckage and, possibly, remains of an unknown crewman from
                the SEARCH LIGHT had been cast up by Lake Huron.

                   The SEARCH LIGHT had been owned by the Browns' for only
                a few days prior to her disappearance.

                Crew List:
                Walter Brown, captain - Harbor Beach
                Harvey Brown, 1st mate - Harbor Beach
                Edward Coveau, engineer - Bay City
                Merton Perkins, fireman - Harbor Beach
                John Lester, deckhand - Harbor Beach
                Angus Murray, deckhand - Detroit


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Sources: Report of the Steamboat Inspection Service, 1908
         Marshall (MI) Daily Chronicle, 25 April 1907
         The American Marine Engineer - May, 1907 - p. 27
         Merchant Vessel Lists - 1901, 1903
         Cornell Daily Sun, 14 November 1913
         Port Huron Times-Herald, 12 November 1913
         Kadar "Strange and Unusual Shipwrecks on the Great Lakes" - p. 25