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    VESSEL NAME:   North Shore
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   230121
    DATE OF LOSS:  26 September 1930
    REASON:        Storm
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, abt 30 mi. off Racine, WI
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, package freight, fruit packet
    HULL TYPE:     Steel
    BUILDER:       Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, WI - 1930
    OWNER(S):      W. J. Laurie, Milwaukee, WI., & Capt. E. J. Anderson
                   Chartered by George Mielke, Benton Harbor, MI
    MASTER:        Capt. Erwin J. Anderson, Washington Island, WI
    TONNAGE:       63 gt
    DIMENSIONS:    60.7 x 20 x 7
    CASUALTIES:    6
    SURVIVORS:     0


                   Had left the Robinson dock at St. Joseph shortly after
                6 a.m. on Friday, September 26, with 10,000 baskets of
                grapes destined for Milwaukee. A couple of hours later a
                southwest gale bore down on Lake Michigan. Coast Guard
                crews set out from both sides of the lake to search for the
                NORTH SHORE when she was reported overdue at Milwaukee.
                Joining the search were aircraft of the Kohler Aviation
                company. Hope for her survival was given up when baskets of
                grapes began coming ashore between Holland and South Haven.
                This same storm took down the barge SALVOR and the schooner
                OUR SON.

                   The NORTH SHORE attracted wide attention because her
                plates had been electrically welded instead of riveted.

                Capt. Erwin Anderson
                Mrs. Harriet Anderson, age 18 (bride of captain)
                Joseph Tekus, of Cudahy, WI
                Royal Richter, age 16, Washington Island
                Arthur C. Peters, age 20, Milwaukee, WI
                John Johnson, Two Rivers, WI

                   The captain and his wife, Harriet (Smith), had been
                married just the month before in Port Washington. His
                father was Judge John A. Anderson of Washington Island.



                Note: some sources confuse this with the NORTH SHORE
                (#3626) formerly the Bon Ami, renamed in 1922.  Newspaper
                reports of this loss, where any measurements are given,
                state that the NORTH SHORE of this report was 60 ft in
                length and had a steel hull.  The NORTH SHORE (#3626) was
                108 ft. in length with a wooden hull.

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Sources: Milwaukee Sentinel- 1, 21 October 1930
         Ludington Sunday Morning News, 28 September 1930
         Ludington Daily News, 29 September, 1930
         The News-Palladium (Benton Harbor, MI) - 27 September 1930
         Chicago Daily Tribune - 28 September 1930
         Merchant Vessel List (losses) - 1931