In November 1913, the White Hurricane Storm battered Lake Erie for three days, and the United States Lighthouse Service's Light Vessel 82 and its crew of six remained on station to warn ships of the dangerous rocky shoals off Point Abino. Thirty-five-foot-high waves and eighty mile-per-hour winds overwhelmed the anchored vessel, and around November 10, 1913, the ship and crew were pulled beneath the cold, dark waters. LV-82 had been built in Muskegon, Michigan, by Racine-Truscott-Shell Boat Co. in 1912 as a steel vessel with a whaleback design, about 100 feet long and 21 feet at the beam, powered by a 90 horsepower steam engine that turned a five-foot cast iron propeller. It carried a fog signal, a submarine bell, a hand-operated bell, a steam anchor, and a cluster of lenses, each providing 180 candle power. The search began immediately, and the ship was finally located on May 9, 1914. No remains were found until a year later, when the body of Chief Engineer Charles Butler washed up in Buffalo harbor and was identified by his wife. Light Vessel 82 was replaced by other United States Lighthouse Service light vessels off Point Abino until 1917-18, when the Canadian government erected the Point Abino Lighthouse, a white structure containing a 3rd order Fresnel lens and a Diaphone Fog Alarm. The lighthouse was declared a National Historic Site in 1998. The six men who lost their lives were Captain Hugh M. Williams of Manistee, Michigan; Chief Engineer Charles Butler of Buffalo, New York; Assistant Engineer Cornelius Leahy of Elyria, Ohio; Mate Andrew Leahy of Elyria, Ohio, Cornelius's brother; Seaman William Jensen of Muskegon, Michigan; and Cook Peter Mackey of Buffalo, New York. The storm on the Great Lakes killed an estimated 240 people and sank 19 ships.