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NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8-86) Wisconsin Word Processing Format (Approved 3/87) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Schooner-barge PRETORIA Section 8 Page 12 Ashland County, WI By the following day, Pretoria's crew was up and about. Keeper Irvine continues: They were able to go along the beach looking for the bodies of those who perished. None were found. They all got back to the station by noon. While at dinner the steamer Venezuela came in sight looking for her consort which was the Pretoria. Which she could plainly see, as it looks like two thirds of her spars is above water. We signaled the steamer. She sent a boat ashore at 2 p.m. and took the men off . . . I expect she [Pretoria] will be a total wreck as her decks is all coming ashore (U.S. Light House Service 4 September 1905) . The vessel's worth was estimated at $60,000 and its cargo at $33,000. She was reputed to be the first vessel Davidson had ever lost (Wolff 1990:108; Runge Collection n.d.). The Duluth Herald (5 September 1905) details the human cost of the wreck: The names of the survivors are as follows: Charles Smart, master, West Bay City Charles Fierman, mate, West Bay City William Smart, seaman, West Bay City Oscar Orling, seaman, Milwaukee Ned Blank, seaman, Buffalo The dead were: Henry Schwartz, donkey engineman, West Bay City Axel Lindloff, seaman, Marinette Isaac Myers, seaman, Milwaukee Alfred Pebsal, Seaman, Sweden Steward, colored, unknown, shipped at Duluth These bodies washed ashore at Outer Island and were recovered by island fisherman Isaac Alskog on September 5 and returned to Bayfield aboard the tug Fashion (Bayfield County Press 8 September 1905). Pretoria's certificate of enrollment was surrendered on January 12, 1906. It was listed as a loss due to foundering (Bureau of Navigation 1902) . A salvage effort under Capt. John Pasque in May,