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Greetings WUAA members and affiliates. On behalf of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeological Association, I’d like to extend our gratitude for your ongoing support and interest in this organization and our mission to foster a greater understanding for and appreciation of Wisconsin’s maritime heritage. 

2019 began with our annual Action Planning Meeting on January 26 in Fond du Lac, WI, where board members outlined the goals and strategies for the year. A sincere thank you should be extended to all our board members who volunteer their time, energy and talents to keep this Association afloat.

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The Marine Antiquity of the Month for December is the annual reports of the US Lifesaving Service.  These books were produced each year, bound in black cloth, between 1878, when the Service was established and 1915, when it was absorbed into the newly established US Coast Guard.  The reports of the US Lifesaving Service are extremely important for researching accidents that occurred around major ports and places where lifesaving stations had been established.

Each annual report contains a few very important sections as well as several sections of fairly un-interesting statistical and instructional information.  The main section people reference is that containing the detailed narratives of shipwrecks at the front of every annual report.  Detailed narratives were only created for wrecks involving a significant loss of life and represent a small percentage of the actual services rendered in a given year.  Still, these narratives are very detailed and often dramatically written to draw attention to the perilous nature of the Life Saving Service’s work.

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The marine antiquity for the month of November is John Brandt Mansfield’s venerable two-volume History of the Great Lakes published in 1899 by J.H. Beers, Chicago. This massive two volume set, offered in a gilt-decorated, hand-tooled saddle-leather binding, is arguably the most important Great Lakes maritime antiquity ever produced. It is truly mind-boggling in its scope and detail, particularly considering that it was written before the information age, and indeed, before the modern industrial age.

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