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: Senator OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 116752 DATE OF LOSS: 31 October 1929 REASON: Collision LOCATION: Lake Michigan, 20 miles off Port Washington RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: Detroit Dry Dock, Wyandotte, MI - 1896 OWNER(S): Chandler Bros., Detroit, MI MASTER: Capt. George Kinch TONNAGE: 4048 gt DIMENSIONS: 410 x 45.4 x 23.9 CASUALTIES: 25-33 (varies with reports) SURVIVORS: 3 (varies with reports) The SENATOR left Milwaukee at 7:45 a.m. bound for Detroit with 240 automobiles aboard and collided with the ore carrier MARQUETTE in a dense fog. The SENATOR went down quickly while the MARQUETTE limped into Milwaukee badly damaged. ======================================================================== Sources: Shelak "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan," p.64 Marine Review - 11 June 1896 Ludington Daily News - 31 October 1929 Institute for Great Lakes Research, Perrysburg, OH