Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Louis Meeker OTHER NAME(s): (var. incl. - L., Louise, Louie, Lewis) OFFICIAL NO: 15873 DATE OF LOSS: 28 August 1872 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, between Pentwater & Little Point Sable RIG TYPE: Schooner HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Hanson & Scove, Manitowoc, WI., - 1872 OWNER(S): Charles Lindgren, Chicago MASTER: Capt. Frank R. West TONNAGE: 311 gt DIMENSIONS: ? CASUALTIES: 5 SURVIVORS: 6 Struck by a sudden squall and thrown on her beam ends about ten miles from shore. Was en route from Chicago to Buffalo with 22,000 bushels of wheat at the time. Survivors were picked up by the schooner W. O. BROWN and taken to Cheboygan. VICTIMS: Frank R. West, Captain Robert West, 6-year-old son of the captain E. Nelson Frank Barker (unknown) steward SURVIVORS: Charles E. Davis, first mate Peter Danielson, second mate Halver Thompson, seaman Andrew Harts, seaman John Ryng, seaman Edward Erickson, passenger ======================================================================== Sources: East Shore News (Pentwater, MI.), 6 September 1872 Detroit Free Press, 19 December 1872 (Losses) Great Lakes Maritime Database, University of Michigan Wenstadt, "Freighters of Manitowoc" - 2007