Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 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: Lucia A. Simpson OTHER NAME(s): Lucy A. Simpson OFFICIAL NO: 140097 DATE OF LOSS: 3 December 1935 REASON: Fire LOCATION: Sturgeon Bay, WI RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI - 1875 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: - TONNAGE: 227 gt DIMENSIONS: 127 x 28 x 9 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 0 After serving her time in the lumber trade she was used as a club house by the Town Hall Yacht Club at Chicago for a brief time. Taken to Milwaukee where she sat rotting until towed to a boneyard at Sturgeon Bay in 1929. Fire swept the area on December 3, 1935 and she was burned. ======================================================================== Sources: Milwaukee Sentinal, 28 December 1971 Swayze "SHIPWRECK!" - 1992 Merchant Vessel List, 1935-'36 R. L. Polk's Marine Directory, 1888 Blue Book of American Shipping, 1897 & 1903 Last updated 14 September 2014