Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

         Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Submitted by Linda Talbott
for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
=========================================================================
Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================

    VESSEL NAME:   Lucia A. Simpson
    OTHER NAME(s): Lucy A. Simpson
    OFFICIAL NO:   140097
    DATE OF LOSS:  3 December 1935
    REASON:        Fire
    LOCATION:      Sturgeon Bay, WI
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 3 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI - 1875
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        -
    TONNAGE:       227 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    127 x 28 x 9
    CASUALTIES:    0
    SURVIVORS:     0
    
    
              After serving her time in the lumber trade she was used
           as a club house by the Town Hall Yacht Club at Chicago for
           a brief time.  Taken to Milwaukee where she sat rotting until
           towed to a boneyard at Sturgeon Bay in 1929.  Fire swept the
           area on December 3, 1935 and she was burned.

 ========================================================================
Sources: Milwaukee Sentinal, 28 December 1971
         Swayze "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992
         Merchant Vessel List, 1935-'36
         R. L. Polk's Marine Directory, 1888
         Blue Book of American Shipping, 1897 & 1903
         
Last updated 14 September 2014