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: Tanner OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 24236 DATE OF LOSS: 10 September 1875 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, south of Milwaukee Harbor RIG TYPE: Bark, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: Ellsworth & Davidson, Milwaukee - 1863 OWNER(S): ? MASTER: Capt. Howard TONNAGE: 434.95 t DIMENSIONS: 157 x 32 x 13 CASUALTIES: 1 (Capt. Howard) SURVIVORS: 9 Bound for Buffalo with wheat when she stranded on the beach south of Milwaukee harbor on the night of September 9, 1875, during a severe northeast gale. Captain and crew took to the rigging for a cold, wet night with heavy sea breaking over them. Attempts were made by the revenue-steamer JOHNSON and the tug F. C. MAXON but failed. The next day (September 10th) rescue was effected by using a scow held by a long line attached to a steam-tug being allowed to drift down near the TANNER, which was fast going to pieces. A yawl boat attached to the scow was allowed to drift still nearer. The men in the rigging dropped into the water and were picked up by the yawl, which was then drawn up to the scow, which in turn was drawn to the shore. These six volunteers who manned the yawl were awarded life- saving medals of the second class in 1877: Henry M. Lee N. A. Petersen Barnt Oleson Anton Oleson Henry Spark John McKenna ======================================================================== Sources: Annual Report U.S.L.S.S., 1877, pp. 55-56 Merchant Vessel List - 1869, 1871, 1873, 1875 Buffalo Morning Express, 29 September 1863