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    VESSEL NAME:   Hattie Wells
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   11609
    DATE OF LOSS:  6 November 1912
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner-barge
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       E. Fitzgerald, Port Huron, MI - 1867
    OWNER(S):      ?
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:    376 gt
    DIMENSIONS: 164.5 x 28 x 11 (lengthened at Wolverine Dry Dock by 30
                feet in 1885)
    CASUALTIES: 0
    SURVIVORS:  6

                Caught in a severe gale and foundered off St. Joseph, MI.,
             while in tow of the tug JAMES H. MARTIN.   

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Sources: Merchant Vessel List - 1911, 1912, 1913 (loss)
         Marine Review, Vol. 42 - 1912
         Beeson's Marine Directory of the Northwestern Lakes, 1908
         R. L. Polk Marine Directory of the Great Lakes, 
         Port Huron Daily Times, 24 February 1885
         Jenks "St. Clair County, Michigan, Its History and Its People"
             Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1912, p. 410
         Greenwood "Namesakes, 1910-1919," p. 293