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To: prisoner6
This year's remembrance will focus on the Lady Elgin, which sunk after being rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan in the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 1860.

As an aside, I was doing reserve duty with VP-60 at NAS Glenview bach in the late 70's when one of the P-3 crews found the wreck of the Lady Elgin. They had been doing MAD runs looking for some WWI German subs that had been scuttled off Chicago when they came across a large contact that was later identified as the Lady Elgin's powerplant. She's a lot further north and west than originally presumed.

26 posted on 11/10/2010 5:38:48 AM PST by Drennan Whyte
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To: Drennan Whyte
Oops, north and east of wheter they originally presumed. If it was north and west then she would have sunk in Gurnee.
27 posted on 11/10/2010 5:40:26 AM PST by Drennan Whyte
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