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    VESSEL NAME:   Horace A. Tuttle
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   95908
    DATE OF LOSS:  26 October 1898
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Michigan City, IN
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Cleveland Dry Dock Co., 1887
    OWNER(S):      Nicholas Transit Company
    MASTER:        Capt. John C. Thompson
    TONNAGE:     1585 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  250 x 38.8 x 20
    CASUALTIES:  0
    SURVIVORS:   18

                 Bound Chicago to Buffalo with schooner ABERDEEN but didn't
              make it very far before a savage storm stove in her hatches.
              With seas washing over her and filling her hold the captain
              made a run for Michigan City.  The port wasn't deep enough to
              get into but he knew there was a life-saving station there.
              Stranded at the mouth of the harbor after striking the west
              breakwall and broke in two.  Captain Kent and the life-saving
              crew at Michigan City plucked the crew, one at a time, from a
              line hanging from the starboard bow of the TUTTLE and then
              returned to board the wreck and take of what personal
              possessions they could. Her consort, ABERDEEN, had been cast
              adrift on the 25th and was driven ashore at Grand Haven.

                 Machinery was removed before July 1, 1899.  A portion of
              the wreck obstructed about 100 feet of the west pier,
              reaching into the channel, and was removed August 22 to
              September 12 by Reid Wrecking at an expense of $3,014.58.

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Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1900 - pp. 120 & 247
         Merchant Vessel List, 1898
         Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1900 - pp. 3933
         Door County Advocate, 7 January 1899
         Northwest Indiana Times, 15 April 2012

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