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    VESSEL NAME:   O. M. Nelson
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   155066
    DATE OF LOSS:  4 June 1899
    REASON:        Fog
    LOCATION:      Lake Michigan, Pilot Island
    RIG TYPE:      Schooner
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       Baker, Sutton's Bay, MI. - 1882
    OWNER(S):      P. Hanson, Washington Isl., Wis.
    MASTER:        ?
    TONNAGE:    167.23 gt
    DIMENSIONS: 107.7 x 25.3 x 8.4  
    CASUALTIES: 0
    SURVIVORS:  7 (6 crew & the captain's daughter)
    
                Stranded on Pilot Island in during southerly gale
             with fog.  Crew and captain's daughter taken off by the
             surfmen from the Plum Island Life-Saving Station who also
             returned to gather up the personal effects of the crew.
             Attempts by a tug to release her failed and, on June 6 &
             7, the surfmen assisted in stripping her.

               

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Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S. - 1900, pp. 185
         The Marine Review, 21 December 1899
         Merchant Vessel List - 1894
         
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