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    VESSEL NAME:   Senator
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   116752
    DATE OF LOSS:  31 October 1929
    REASON:        Collision
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, 20 miles off Port Washington
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI - 1896
    OWNER(S):      Chandler Bros., Detroit, MI
    MASTER:        Capt. George Kinch
    TONNAGE:       4048 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    410 x 45.4 x 23.9
    CASUALTIES:    25-33 (varies with reports)
    SURVIVORS:     3 (varies with reports)

                   The SENATOR left Milwaukee at 7:45 a.m. bound for
                Detroit with 240 automobiles aboard and collided with
                the ore carrier MARQUETTE in a dense fog.  The SENATOR went
                down quickly while the MARQUETTE limped into Milwaukee
                badly damaged.



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Sources: Shelak "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan," p.64
         Marine Review - 11 June 1896
         Ludington Daily News - 31 October 1929
         Institute for Great Lakes Research, Perrysburg, OH