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    VESSEL NAME:   S. Thal
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   115781
    DATE OF LOSS:  10 November 1898
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, off Glencoe, IL
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 masts
    HULL TYPE:     Wooden
    BUILDER:       at Milwaukee in 1867
    OWNER(S):      Capt. August Schuenemann
    MASTER:        (same)
    TONNAGE:       55 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    75 x 20 x 4
    CASUALTIES:    3-5 (sources vary)
    SURVIVORS:     0

              Lost with all hands while bringing Christmas trees to
              Chicago.

              Capt. August Schueneman had only owned the S. THAL for
              about two weeks before the disaster.  He had bought her at
              public auction for $250.


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Sources: Merchant Vessel Lists - 1896, 1897,
         M. Bourie "Many a Midnight Ship", 2005 - pp. 201
         R. Pennington "The Historic Christmas Tree Ship", 2004
         F. Neuschel "Lives & Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships", 2007
   www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/winter/christmas-tree.html