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    VESSEL NAME:   Tennie & Laura
    OTHER NAME(s): none
    OFFICIAL NO:   145115
    REASON:        Foundered
    DATE OF LOSS:  2 August 1903
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, about 10 miles NE of Milwaukee
    RIG TYPE:      Scow-schooner, two masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       Gunder Jorgenson, Manitowoc, WI 1876
    OWNER(S):      O. Osmondson & O. Bjorkgnist, Milwaukee, WI (1876-1885)
                   R. Hansen, H. Hansen (1886-1887)
                   Englebert Larsen, R. Hansen, Manitowoc (1887)
                   Herman M. Ludwig, V.B. Ludwig, Ludington, MI (1892-1899)
                   O. Ludwig, South Haven, MI (1899-1901)
                   Capt. James Sather (1901-1903)
    MASTER:        Capt. James Sather
    TONNAGE:       56 gt
    LENGTH:        73 ft
    BEAM:          19 ft
    DEPTH:          5.6 ft
    CASUALTIES:     1
    SURVIVORS:      1
    
           2 May 1884 - Collision with schooner LITTLE GEORGY on Lake
                        Michigan.
            
           2 Aug 1903 - Capsized during a summer squall about 10 miles
                        NE of Milwaukee.  Capt. Sather and mate, Charles
                        Nordbach, took to yawl.  Capt. Sather rescued by
                        steamer MARK B. COVELL who had passed a line to
                        the yawl.  Mate Charles Nordbach was lost during
                        the rescue when the yawl capsized and he was
                        swept away by the waves.

                        
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Sources:  R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884; 1888
          Merchant Vessel List, 1902
          Buffalo Evening News, 3 August 1903
          The Milwaukee Journal, 3 August 1903
          Meteorological Charts of the Great Lakes, 1903, p. 9