13Aug37: Hunt 3 Aboard Boat Lost on Fishing Trip

Posted April 21, 2008
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DETROIT EVENING TIMES

Dateline: Friday, August 13, 1937

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Hunt 3 Aboard Boat Lost on Fishing Trip

MUSKEGON, Aug. 13.–Coast guardsmen on the Chicago, 75-foot patrol cutter, searched Lake Michigan today for a missing fishing boat and its crew of three, John and Edward Sloan and Jack Ghezzi, all of Muskegon. They were missed in a storm Wednesday night.

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  1. Laurie Ashe on November 17, 2008

    I was kind of shocked to find this on the internet. Edward Sloan was my grandfather. He died 3 months before my mother was born. I found it as I was looking for info for my 2nd grade son’s family tree project at school.

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  2. Laurie Ashe on November 23, 2008

    Edward Sloan was my grandfather. He died in this accident three months before my mother was born. I have always heard this story but it was interesting to actually find info. From what I remember, they found the body of Jack Ghezzi but not John or Edward Sloan. My great-uncle went to Michigan during the search. He told me that they found pieces of the boat and from the scratches on the wood, it looked like a larger ship might have run over their boat.

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  3. Rubber Arm on November 24, 2008

    Hello Laurie.

    I will try to find the news article and scan an image of it and post it here if I can.

    I just happen to have a lot of old newspapers so I do not actually know anything more about it.

    RubberArm

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