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A tiny cabin could allow one man to rest below out of the weather, fully clad in oilskins and sea boots, while another one or two might be blasted by snow, freezing rain or numbing cold, working the ship. In more favorable months the decks might be piled high with extracargo. Meals would be unfit for humans leading to the hope for better things ashore. When the ship became old and her tired hull began to "work" in a seaway, remaining afloat required weary, back-breaking pumping for daysonend. At trip's end there was cargo to load or unload, repairs to make, a little bit of rest. . .and then off again upon the lake's pathways -- sometimes pleasant, often blow- ing, cold and rough. Being only 58 feet long, with tops'ls that required going aloft in any weather, a long jib boom forward that needed a fearless sailor to claw down heads'ls while plunging beneath the icy seas, she was a ship hard on her crew. However, her small size was easier on the pocketbook of the master, as in most cases she could successfully enter NOV * DEC, 1979 Page 153 harbors without a tug, and usually awaited a fair breeze upon departing. However, it was all hands for fair in tight quarters. On rare occasions she was given a line by friendly Life Saving crews (now the Coast Guard) who made a report in the operations log book. Those reports of the Life Saving Service and tattered newspaper clippings have preserved a few of the tragic events that marked the checkered life of the schooner Condor. On May 14, 1883, in a nasty sea with a pea- soup fog, at night, sailing with only two tired seamen aboard, she was driven hard ashore six miles north of Sheboygan, laden with Michigan lumber for Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Heavy surf boarded her and threatened to break up the vessel and drown the crew, when the Sheboygan Life Saving Station's surfmen took off her exhausted men. The tug Kitty Smoke, which accompanied the rescuers, was unable to release her from the greedy clutches of the breakers. Days later, however, salv- agers floated the vessel and cargo, allowing the Se The schooner CONDOR closely resembled this unnamed schooner in type and rig. Walter M. Hirthe/Milwaukee Public Library