A nine meter Silverton cabin cruiser with sixteen persons onboard collided with a break-wall first and then capsized and sank. The accident happened on the Chicago side of Lake Michigan near 31st Street Harbor on 19:30 hours of Friday 26 July. All but one man made it out of the water, with three of these; one man and two woman taken to a hospital for treatment. One man is still unaccounted for with searches continuing on Saturday morning. US Coast Guard assisted the accident, as witnesses reported seeing the boat crashing in the break wall at speed, before hearing screams for help.
The boat in this accident is a Silverton 322 Motor Yacht as produced from 1998 to 2001. The Silverton 322 Motor Yacht is an all out cabin space searching cruiser, bringing the 372 Motor Yacht and 352 Motor Yacht identical wide body design in a length of just under ten meters.
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