Robert W. Simpson, 46, engineer, went with the tug “Thomas Wilson” and aided in the rescue of the officers and crew of the schooner “Yukon,” Ashtabula, Ohio, October 20, 1905. Simpson was one of a crew of three men who went with the tug “Thomas Wilson” as she was taken out of the harbor by her master during a fierce gale blowing 52 m.p.h. With the waves on Lake Erie running 14 feet high, the tug was steered in the trough of the sea, past the sinking schooner, close enough to enable the men on it to leap to their safety. 769-30
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