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    VESSEL NAME:    Experiment
    OTHER NAME(s):  -
    OFFICIAL NO:    7523
    DATE OF LOSS:   12 September 1902
    CAUSE OF LOSS:  Stranded
    LOCATION:       Lake Michigan, St. Joseph, MI
    RIG TYPE:       Schooner, two masted
    HULL TYPE:      Wood
    BUILDER:        at St. Joseph, MI., - 1854
    OWNER(S):       Capt. John Whitney
    MASTER:         Capt. John Whitney
    TONNAGE:        49.91 gt, 47.42 nt
    DIMENSIONS:     64 x 17 x 6
    CASUALTIES:     none

                    July 12, 1901 - towed into Ludington, MI in a leaking
                  condition with crew exhuasted by work at the pumps.
                  
                    Sept 12, 1902 - Missed the harbor entrance at St. Joseph
                  in a strong NW wind and high sea. Stranded to the north-
                  ward of the north pier where she went to pieces. The
                  crew swam and waded to shore.
                  
                    On June 8, 1855, the EXPERIMENT went ashore at nearly
                  the same place with a loss of 4 lives including 10 month
                  old Walter Harding Napier, son of Capt. Nelson W. Napier
                  who was not aboard. Mrs. Henrietta Napier and her 13 year
                  old son, Edward, were found alive when a wrecking crew
                  chopped a hole in the bottom of the capsized hull the
                  following morning. At the time the EXPERIMENT was owned 
                  by Jas. E. Stevens.
                  
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Sources:  Merchant Vessel List: 1869, '71, '73, '74, '78, '81, '87, '95, '99
          Annual Report of the USLSS - 1901, 1902
          The Lansing Republican - 12 June, 1855
          The Grand Rapids Press - 13 Sept, 1902
          The Muskegon Chronicle - 17 Sept, 1902