CORNELIA WINDIATE
Other names  :  none  also seen as CORNELIA B. WINDIATE
Official no.     :  12537
Type at loss   :  schooner, wood, 3-mast
Build info       :  1873, Thos. Windiate, Manitowoc, WI
Specs            :  136x26x12,   322 t.
Date of loss    :  1875, Dec 10
Place of loss   :  off Middle Isl. near Rogers City, MI
Lake              : Huron
Type of loss    :  storm
Loss of life      :  9 [all]
Carrying         :  wheat
Detail             : Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, she became trapped in ice, cut and sunk. She was not reported as having passed the Straits and her spars were reported sticking out of the water  near the Fox Islands, so she was thought for over 100 year to have been lost in Lake Michigan. She was discovered on the bottom of Lake Huron in 1987, in excellent condition.
Sources            :  diver,glss,usls,mpl,es,nsp