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: Horace A. Tuttle OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: 95908 DATE OF LOSS: 26 October 1898 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Michigan City, IN RIG TYPE: Propeller HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Cleveland Dry Dock Co., 1887 OWNER(S): Nicholas Transit Company MASTER: Capt. John C. Thompson TONNAGE: 1585 gt DIMENSIONS: 250 x 38.8 x 20 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 18 Bound Chicago to Buffalo with schooner ABERDEEN but didn't make it very far before a savage storm stove in her hatches. With seas washing over her and filling her hold the captain made a run for Michigan City. The port wasn't deep enough to get into but he knew there was a life-saving station there. Stranded at the mouth of the harbor after striking the west breakwall and broke in two. Captain Kent and the life-saving crew at Michigan City plucked the crew, one at a time, from a line hanging from the starboard bow of the TUTTLE and then returned to board the wreck and take of what personal possessions they could. Her consort, ABERDEEN, had been cast adrift on the 25th and was driven ashore at Grand Haven. Machinery was removed before July 1, 1899. A portion of the wreck obstructed about 100 feet of the west pier, reaching into the channel, and was removed August 22 to September 12 by Reid Wrecking at an expense of $3,014.58. ======================================================================== Sources: Annual Report of the U.S.L.S.S., 1900 - pp. 120 & 247 Merchant Vessel List, 1898 Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1900 - pp. 3933 Door County Advocate, 7 January 1899 Northwest Indiana Times, 15 April 2012 Last updated 5 January 2015