News: Owen - Crew Members Aboard Missing Ship “Andaste” (1929)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Ramond, Collins, Smith, Schuitema, Bayles, Lorenz, Watt, Whitaker, Torgeson, Johnson, Gauld, Ratcliff, Codas, McCadde, Bluechelt, Anderson, Green, Evans, Nienhouse, Joslin

---------Source: Evening Star, Washington, D.C. (13 Sep 1929)

Chicago, September 13, 1929 – Hope was all but abandoned today for the missing gravel Ship Andaste and it crew. Coast Guardsmen returning from a search for the vessel, three days overdue in Chicago from Grand haven, Michigan, said neither Lake Michigan nor the Michigan shore had given a single clue to the ship’s fate.

Among members of the crew were: H. Ramond, Joe Collins, Darwin Smith, H. Schuitema, J. Bayles of Benton Harbor, Mich.; W. Lorenz of Grand Rapids; George Watt, h. Whitaker, Theodore Torgeson of Owen, Wisconsin; Orville Johnson, G. Gauld of Asheville, N.C.; G. Ratcliff, T. Codas, J. J. McCadde of Cleveland; E. Bluechelt, John Anderson, M. Green, George Evans, F. Nienhouse and William Joslin.