More About the Schooner Rockaway

William Brinen, who with Thomas Munroe owned the wrecked schooner Rockaway, says that when he went to South Haven last Tuesday to look after the boat, members of the life saving crew there told him that they could still see the schooner lying at anchor where she was when the crew was taken off. Taking their word for this Mr. Brinen then went to Benton Harbor and arranged with a tug to go to the schooner and tow her down to that place. Then he came home and the first he learned that the Rockaway had gone to the bottom was the following Saturday morning when Capt. Thompson arrived here with that information. As the schooner was then lying her masts extended out of the water and were plainly visible. it is Mr. Brinen's idea that all her upper works were carried away with the lumber when that was washed off. The lumber belonged to the new company in which a number of Muskegon men are interested at Anderson Ind., the Indiana Box company. There was no insurance on schooner or cargo. Mr. Brinen says they were not accustomed to carry insurance and that it will be a total loss on cargo and schooner. The Rockaway was extensively repaired at considerable expense in the dry dock here last summer.