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    VESSEL NAME:   Vega
    OTHER NAME(s): St. Paul (1856-1879), A. J. Covil (1879-1885)
    OFFICIAL NO:   22418
    DATE OF LOSS:  20 October 1905
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, south of Ludington piers.
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner, 2 mast
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       at Erie, Pa., 1856
    OWNER(S):      Nels Olson and Capt. George Jergenson
    MASTER:        Capt. George Jergenson
    TONNAGE:       200 gt
    DIMENSIONS:  118 x 26 x 8.58
    CASUALTIES:  0
    SURVIVORS:   6

                 The schooner VEGA went ashore south of the Ludington
              piers while attempting to make port in a storm so severe
              that breakers were came nearly a block up the beach and waves
              dashed completely over the lighthouse and piers.  Crew of 6,
              including the captain's wife, were taken off by the Ludington
              lifesaving crew in the breeches buoy.


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Sources: Ludington Daily News - 24 August 1957
         Ludington Chronicle - 25 October 1905
         Ludington Record-Appeal -26 October 1905
         Buffalo Evening News - 9 November 1905
         Merchant Vessel Lists - 1886, 1906 (losses)
         Greenwood "Namesakes 1900-1909," p. 369

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