{"id":420,"date":"2009-04-10T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/?p=420"},"modified":"2009-04-13T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T14:32:08","slug":"pirates-attack-on-lake-michigan-grand-haven-beaver-island-manitous-threatened-by-marauders-causes-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2009\/04\/10\/pirates-attack-on-lake-michigan-grand-haven-beaver-island-manitous-threatened-by-marauders-causes-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Attack on Lake Michigan: Grand Haven, Beaver Island, Manitous Threatened by Marauders Causes Excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sailfastchicago_lake-michigan_pirates.jpg\" alt=\"Pirates on Lake Michigan - www.sailfastchicago.com\" title=\"Pirates on Lake Michigan - www.sailfastchicago.com\" width=\"325\" height=\"244\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pirates on Lake Michigan have attacked boats and towns during the 1800&#8217;s, wreaking havoc and mayhem in their search for booty in regions such as Beaver Island, the Manitous and Grand Haven.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/sailfastchicago_lake-michigan_pirates_newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"Pirates on Lake Michigan - newspaper article - www.sailfastchicago.com\" title=\"Pirates on Lake Michigan - newspaper article - www.sailfastchicago.com\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\"  \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>WBBM Newsradio 780<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (WBBM) &#8211; While the world watches the Somali pirate drama, there&#8217;s a story to be told of pirates right here on  Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Michigan was home to a few pirates from the 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The headline: Wholesale robbery by pirates on Lake Michigan.  The date: October 10, 1855, in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Times reported on people in the area around Saugutuck, Michigan, &#8220;thrown into the most intense excitement by the operations of a gang of marauders, who are reported to be Mormons from Beaver Island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t other ships that were attacked, it was land-based stores.<\/p>\n<p>Half a century later &#8211; and almost 101 years ago &#8211; &#8220;Roaring&#8221; Dan Seavey took control of a Great Lakes cargo ship and sailed it to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly got control of the 40-foot schooner Nellie Johnson in Grand Haven, Michigan, by out-drinking its captain and crew &#8211; then stealing it.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun-Times reports that Seavey &#8220;found no fortune in his pirating: He was unable to sell the load of cedar posts in Chicago and was captured back near his home in Frankfort, Michigan.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates on Lake Michigan have attacked boats and towns during the 1800&#8217;s, wreaking havoc and mayhem in their search for booty in regions such as Beaver Island, the Manitous and Grand Haven. WBBM Newsradio 780 reports: CHICAGO (WBBM) &#8211; While the world watches the Somali pirate drama, there&#8217;s a story to be told of pirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,14,23,59,22,72,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-boating-disasters","category-great-lakes","category-history","category-lake-michigan","category-law-politics-and-government","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}