Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 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: Rosa Belle OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 21302 DATE OF LOSS: 20 October 1921 REASON: Unknown LOCATION: Lake Michigan, off Milwaukee RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2-mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Boole, Milwaukee, WI., - 1863 OWNER(S): House of David, Benton Harbor, MI MASTER: Captain Erhart Gliese TONNAGE: 131.99 gt DIMENSIONS: 100 x 26 x 10 CASUALTIES: 11 SURVIVORS: 0 Beached and badly damaged at Grand Haven during the fall of 1875. Was reported as a total loss but was purchased by Squire & White and rebuilt. Given a class of B1. At one time owned by John Kane of Sheboygan, WI., who purchased her in for $450 in 1907. Kane sold her to the House of David Colony in 1918. At that time it was reported she was the last sail vessel working out of Sheboygan. The ROSA BELL was bound High Island to Benton Harbor loaded with lumber and potatoes. She was found capsized in mid-lake by the Ann Arbor car ferry No. 4 with her stern torn off. Towed to the beach near Racine and abandoned by her owners. Bits of her wreckage came ashore near Racine in 1929 following a storm so severe that it claimed the big carferry MILWAUKEE. Casualty List: Erhart Gliese, captain Charles Anderson, first mate Waldemar Frederickson, second mate Alvin Winder, seaman Edgar Marshall, seaman Jake Vonmoulken, seaman Robert Dauley, seaman C. Daley, seaman L. Nye, seaman Cecil Claudel, seaman Edwin Wilson, seaman * Rebuilds in 1874 & 1876 ======================================================================== Sources: Lewiston Evening Journal, 26 October 1929 Merchant Vessel List, 1884 Beeson's Inland Marine Guide- 1891, 1892 (*gives build year as 1853 in both) R. L. Polk Marine Directory, 1884 Detroit Tribune, 15 April 1876 Sheboygan Press-Telegram, 2 November 1921 The Milwaukee Sentinal, 5 February 1962 Last updated 5 January 2015