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: S. Thal OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 115781 DATE OF LOSS: 10 November 1898 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, off Glencoe, IL RIG TYPE: Schooner, 2 masts HULL TYPE: Wooden BUILDER: at Milwaukee in 1867 OWNER(S): Capt. August Schuenemann MASTER: (same) TONNAGE: 55 gt DIMENSIONS: 75 x 20 x 4 CASUALTIES: 3-5 (sources vary) SURVIVORS: 0 Lost with all hands while bringing Christmas trees to Chicago. Capt. August Schueneman had only owned the S. THAL for about two weeks before the disaster. He had bought her at public auction for $250. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel Lists - 1896, 1897, M. Bourie "Many a Midnight Ship", 2005 - pp. 201 R. Pennington "The Historic Christmas Tree Ship", 2004 F. Neuschel "Lives & Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships", 2007 www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/winter/christmas-tree.html