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The Big Storm of 1913 - Part II (continued) about a foot, and in a very short time she filled with water. The water was right up to the deck and the hatches all washed off. After we went on, the forward crew all came up into the texas to get shelter and remained there until about 2 p. m., the afternoon of the 10th. The crew all remained aft in the mess room and kitchen, and after we fetched up we had no communication with the other end of the boat until Monday forenoon, when the weather moderated somewhat and the third engineer worked his way forward with food. In the afternoon the weather had moderated so that the forward crew were able to get aft. We all went aft and remained there with the after crew in the kitchen and mess room until Tuesday morning, Nov. Il. After daylight the mate went up on the after cabin with some of the crew and cleared the ice and water out of the port life boat. About 7:30, they got the life boat lowered. The two mates, two wheelsmen, boatswain, third engineer, two firemen and a watchman, got the boat away and started to procure assistance for the rest of the crew. They landed on the beach near Port Austin. When our life boat got ashore the life saving crew started out and got to our boat about ten o'clock. When we left, the vessel was broken in two about the after side of no. 7 hatch; you could see the crack across the deck and down the side. The smoke stack was gone; also the life rafts and the starboard life boat had been washed away. She had about a foot to a foot and a half starboard list, with her bows probably 6 to 7 feet lower than her stern. Half of the fuel hatch and the boiler house had been carried away; also the starboard side of the cabin and the after end of the cabin, leaving just the kitchen and the mess room and the hard coal box. The houses forward were all stove in, the windows and doors knocked off, the top of the pilot house gone, the bulwarks forward were all driven in, and, in my opinion, the vessel is a total loss. J. H. SHEADLE Univ. of Detroit Marine Collection Steel bulk freighter (U. S. 203628) built in 1906 at Ecorse, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineering Works (Hull #22) for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. as a.) J. H. SHEADLE; 530.0 X 56.2 X 32.0; 6,924 gross tons. Renamed b.) F. A. BAILEY in 1924, c.) LASALLE in 1930. Sold Canadian in 1966 and renamed d.) MEAFORD (C. 325783). Renamed e.) PIERSON INDEPENDENT in 1979 and f.) COMPANY in 1980. Arrived at Santander, Spain on June 11, 1980 for scrapping. ~3-