- Date
- 1960-01-17
- Kind
- Accident
- Where
- Pine Lake
- Participants
- Clarence Sikorski (victim)
- Lives lost
- 1
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Chief Clarence Sikorski, age 55 and living at Interlochen, Michigan, drowned in the channel of Pine Lake on January 17, 1960. The Beaver Beacon identified him as a former Coast Guard member who had been in charge of the Beaver Island station in the late 1940s.
Evidence and limits
The newspaper gives no recovery details, exact site within the channel, funeral, or Coast Guard personnel record. The former-station role is kept as the newspaper’s account rather than expanded into a service chronology.
Open questions
- Which Coast Guard and civil records document Sikorski’s station assignment, death, and recovery?
See also
Sources
- Reports that Chief Clarence Sikorski, 55, of Interlochen, Michigan, drowned in the channel of Pine Lake on January 17 and had formerly been Coast Guard in charge of the Beaver Island station in the late 1940s. It does not provide a death certificate, recovery account, or complete Coast Guard service record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1960-02_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Drowning of Clarence Sikorski in Pine Lake, 1960”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/drowning-of-clarence-sikorski-1960/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1960, “Vitals.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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