Schooner
Silver Lake

 

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A 95 foot, three-masted schooner built in 1889 at Little Point Sable, Michigan.  On May 28, 1900 she collided with the car ferry, Marquette and sank in 210 feet of water, eight miles northeast of Sheboygan.  Masts standing upright.

SILVER LAKE
Other names : none
Official no. : 116263
Type at loss : scow-schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1889, Little Point Sauble, MI
Specs : 95x20x8, 111g 106n
Date of loss : 1900, May 28
Place of loss : 10 miles off Manitowoc, WI
Lake : Michigan
Type of loss : collision
Loss of life : 1
Carrying : lumber
Detail : She was rammed and sunk by the carferry PERE MARQUETTE in fog. She hung by her rigging from the bow of the ferry until 3 of her crew scrambled aboard. The cook had perished in crash. She was cut away to sink, but a large portion of her drifted ashore near Racine, WI, Sep 16.
Owned by Nels Johnson of Racine
Wreck located in May, 1977
Sources: cfgl,h,lmdc,nsp,mpl


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