Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2020 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/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Novadoc OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: (C)149465 DATE OF LOSS: 11 November 1940 CAUSE OF LOSS: Stranded LOCATION: Lake Michigan, near Pentwater RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: Swan, Hunter & Richardson, Wallsend-on-tyne, Great Britain - 1928 OWNER(S): Paterson Steamships Ltd. MASTER: Capt. Steip TONNAGE: 1934 gt DIMENSIONS: 252.66 x 43.25 x 17.66 CASUALTIES: 2 of 19 Bound from Chicago to Port Alfred, Ont., with a cargo of powdered coke, and running close to the east shore when the wind began to shift and roared to a gale. It was too late to cross to the other shore. Capt. Steip attempted to put her bow to the wind but Lake Michigan shows no extra respect for foreign vessels and elbowed her closer and closer to the shore. She was finally shoved hard aground off Juniper Beach, north of Little Point Sable lighthouse. Seventeen surviving crewmen were taken off by the old fishing tug, THREE BROTHERS II. ======================================================================== Sources: Ludington Daily News - 13, 14 & 15 November 1940 Green's Directory - 1936, 1939 USGenNet Data Repository - 1940 Storm