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: Search Light OTHER NAME(s): (also seen as Searchlight) OFFICIAL NO: 116912 DATE OF LOSS: 23 April 1907 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Huron, off Harbor Beach, MI RIG TYPE: Propeller, fishing tug HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: West Bay City, MI, 1899 OWNER(S): Levi Brown & Sons, Harbor Beach, MI MASTER: Capt. Walter Brown TONNAGE: 9 gt DIMENSIONS: 40 x 10.5 x 3.7 CASUALTIES: 6 SURVIVORS: 0 The SEARCH LIGHT was on her way back to port from the fishing grounds when last seen before being struck by a furious northwest gale. A search conducted by the life- savers turned up only small pieces of wreckage and fish boxes from the missing tug. Following the big storm of 1913 it was reported that wreckage and, possibly, remains of an unknown crewman from the SEARCH LIGHT had been cast up by Lake Huron. The SEARCH LIGHT had been owned by the Browns' for only a few days prior to her disappearance. Crew List: Walter Brown, captain - Harbor Beach Harvey Brown, 1st mate - Harbor Beach Edward Coveau, engineer - Bay City Merton Perkins, fireman - Harbor Beach John Lester, deckhand - Harbor Beach Angus Murray, deckhand - Detroit ======================================================================== Sources: Report of the Steamboat Inspection Service, 1908 Marshall (MI) Daily Chronicle, 25 April 1907 The American Marine Engineer - May, 1907 - p. 27 Merchant Vessel Lists - 1901, 1903 Cornell Daily Sun, 14 November 1913 Port Huron Times-Herald, 12 November 1913 Kadar "Strange and Unusual Shipwrecks on the Great Lakes" - p. 25