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Name | Built | Lost | Dimensions {Feet} | Burden | Type | Description of Event | Additional Information |
Phoenix | 1845 | 11/21/1847 | 140.6 x 22.7 x 10.6 | unknown | Steam Propeller | Burned to her waterline and towed to the old North Pier | Mansfield, History of the Great Lakes, I:652-653; Heyl, Early American Steamers, I:249-251; Buffalo Morning Express, 11/29/1847, 11/31/1847; Sheboygan Herald, 6/5/1897, 6/12/1897, 3/12/1904. |
E. G. Walcott | pre-1846 | 11/22/1847 | unknown | unknown | Schooner | Driven ashore and broken up by gale force winds. | Buffalo Morning Express, 11/21/1847; Mansfield I:902 |
H. Merrill | pre-1846 | 11/22/1847 | unknown | unknown | Schooner | Beached at Sheboygan in a gale 11/22/1847. Owner Woodward drowned trying to get to the beach (Buffalo Morning Express, n.d.) Note that the ship was raised and rebuilt at Sheboygan in 1848 | Buffalo Morning Express, 5/29/1848. |
Gallinipper | 1846 | 07/07/1851 | unknown | 142 | Schooner | Capsized off Sheboygan 10 miles southeast by south of Manitowoc | Mansfield I:662, 828; H. G. Runge m/s 16-17. |
Abiah | 1848 | 09/00/1854 | 134 x 27.2 x 10.6 | 353 | Schooner | Struck by squall and capsized Towed to within 15 miles of Sheboygan Became wrecked and abandoned | James Jetzer m/s. |
Equator | 1842 | 05/23/1854 | unknown | 132 | Schooner | Seven miles south of Sheboygan on beach. | James Jetzer m/s. |
Fair Play | unknown | 11/05/1855 | unknown | unknown | Schooner | Capsized north of Kirkland's north pier | |
Brilliant | 1856 | 12/05/1857 | 100 x 26.8 x 7.7 | 182 | Schooner | Went ashore near Peterson's Pier seven miles south of Sheboygan | |
Home | 1843 | 10/1858 | 84.8 x 23.8 x 7.4 | 127 | Schooner | Sank 13 miles northeast of Sheboygan (May be 1854 scow schooner Home, 91 gross tons.) | H. G. Runge m/s 46-47; Mansfield I:682, 837. |
Big Z | 1844 | 1859 | 112 x 20 x 8.6 | 168 | Schooner | Ashore five miles south of Sheboygan | |
Gray Hound | 1853 | 09/19/1859 | 130 x 28 x ll | 367 | Brig | Ashore opposite Clay Banks one mile south of Kirkland's Pier | Mansfield I:683, 833; H. G. Runge m/s 48-49. |
Fashion | 1846 | 1860 | unknown | 282 | Brig | In commission in the 1870's | |
Ocean Eagle | 1855 | 10/23/1862 | 122 x 25 x 10 | 281 | Brig | Struck pier and went to pieces | |
Fish Hawk | 1858 | 11/1865 | unknown | 35 | Schooner | Mansfield 1:704, 825; James Jetzer m/s. | |
Scud | pre 1854 | 1865 | unknown | 32 | Scow Schooner | James Jetzer m/s. | |
Magellan Cloud | unknown | l868 | unknown | unknown | Schooner | unknown | |
Ruby | 1854 | 1868 | 84.5 x 19.6 x 7.2 | 118 | Schooner | unknown | |
J. A. Johnson | 1867 | 09/23/1870 | 83 x 22 x 6 | 95 | Scow Schooner | Sank about eight miles north of Sheboygan | |
Nora | 1869 | 10/28/1870 | 64 x 17.2 x 5.8 | 89 | Schooner | Collision with Schooner Sweepstakes 16 miles southwest of Sheboygan | Mansfield I:867; James Jetzer m/s. |
Adell | 1860 | 11/08/1870 | 48 x 12 x 4.7 | 19 | Schooner | Sprung leak and sank in harbor | H. G. Runge m/s 88-89; Mansfield I-788. |
San Jacinto | 1856 | 08/00/1871 | unknown | 265 | Schooner | Sunk in harbor Raised and towed to Milwaukee | Edward Carus m/s; H. G. Runge m/s 106 107; Mansfield I:720, 884. |
Union | 1867 | 09/17/1871 | 59 x 15 x 6 | 41 | Schooner | Sunk 25 miles off Sheboygan Vessel raised and recovered | Edward Carus m/s; H. G. Runge m/s 106-107; Mansfield I:895. |
Levant | 1854 | 10/14/1871 | 92.1 x 22.5 x 7.7 | 114 | Schooner | Capsized off Sheboygan | Mansfield I:848; H. G. Runge m/s 108-109; Edward Carus m/s. |
Wenona | 1863 | 11/07/1872 | unknown | 230 | Barkantine | Seven miles south of Sheboygan in 14 feet of water Vessel recovered | James Jetzer m/s. |
Hampton | 1845 | 09/20/1873 | 114.9 x 23.3 x 9.1 | 173 | Brigantine | Sank eight miles off Sheboygan | Detroit Free Press 9/30/1873; James Jetzer. |
Melrose | 1852 | 10/05/1874 | unknown | 204 | Schooner | Went ashore at South Point | |
W. F. Allen, Jr. | 1853 | 10/25/1875 | 136 x 25.8 x 10.9 | 244 | Schooner | Ashore five miles south of Sheboygan | |
John Wallace | 1853 | 04/06/1876 | unknown | 57 | Schooner | unknown | |
Hattie Taylor | 1874 | 08/26/1880 | unknown | 84 | Schooner | Sunk six miles south southeast of Sheboygan Piers | |
Hannah Etty | 1864 | 08/26/1880 | unknown | 60 | Schooner | On beach six miles south of Sheboygan | |
Jenny | 1868 | 1880 | 75 x 19 x 5 | 40 | Schooner | unknown | |
Walter B. AIlen | 1866 | 04/17/1880 | 136.8 x 26.2 x ll.l | 296 | Schooner | Foundered 10 miles northeast of Sheboygan | H. G. Runge m/s 144-145. |
E. M. Portch | 1867 | 03/27/1882 | unknown | 305 | Schooner | Sank south of the South Pier | |
Nellie Church | 1867 | 10/03/1883 | 99.7 x 24 x 6.3 | 123 | Scow Schooner | In commission in 1899 | Vessel recovered Mansfield I:741; Edward Carus m/s; Sheboygan Times, 10/6/1883, 10/13/1883. |
Petrel | 1847 | 10/17/1883 | 79 x 15 x 5 | 151 | Schooner | Sank opposite Goodrich dock | Recovered, abandoned, blown up with dynamite, and removed |
Ahnapee | 1867 | 06/09/1884 | 71 x 213 x 6.3 | 118 | Scow Schooner | Sank 2½ miles north of Sheboygan | |
Advance | 1853 | 09/05/1885 | 117.3 x 25.7 x 8.9 | 179 | Schooner | Sank nine miles south of Sheboygan | Mansfield I:745, 789; H. G. Runge m/s 168-169. |
Floretta | 1867 | 09/18/1885 | 134 x 26 x ll | 295 | Schooner | Foundered 15 miles north northeast of Sheboygan | Mansfield I:745, 826; H. G. Runge m/s 168-169. |
S. Anderson | 1874 | 10/19/1885 | 140.8 x 25.3 x 10 | 282 | Schooner | Edward Carus m/s (believed incorrect; suspect next listing instead) | |
S. G. Andrews | (1856) | 116 x 25 x 9 | 197 | two-mast schooner | "The schooner S. G. Andrews, ashore at Scott's Point (?), has become a total wreck and has been abandoned," from Port Huron (MI) Daily Times, 10/23/1885 | ||
White Oak | 1867 | 10/19/1885 | 111 x 24.8 x 9.5 | 157 | Schooner | Sunk 5½ miles north. of Sheboygan | |
Hercules | 1854 | 07/14/1886 | 80.5 x 22.7 x 6.5 | 90 | Scow Schooner | Went ashore at South Point and was stripped | |
Belle Wallbridge | 1857 | 11/22/1886 | 136.6 x 35.7 x 10.3 | 270 | Schooner | Struck South Pier and hard ashore | Removed by Government dredge in 1894. |
Blue Belle | 1869 | 09/04/1887 | 83 x 25 x 7 | 122 | Scow Schooner | Hit South Pier and went ashore | Removed by Government dredge in 1894. |
Polynesia | 1885 | 10/23/1887 | 204 x 37.2 x 15.6 | 979 | Barge | Sunk 20 miles east of Sheboygan | Mansfield I:750, 874; H. G. Runge m/s 176-177; Marquette Daily Mining Journal, 11/26/1887; Port Huron Times, 10/26/1887 |
Lilly Amiot | 1873 | 11/27/1888 | 47.4 x 12.4 x 4.7 | 25 | Schooner | Carus m/s; James Jetzer m/s. | |
Norway | 1873 | 1889 | 161.4 x 33.8 x 8.7 | 393 | Barge | James Jetzer m/s. | |
Mediterranean | 1859 | 09/20/1891 | 123 x 25 x 10 | 239 | Bark | Foundered 25 miles off of Sheboygan | Edward Carus m/s; H. G. Runge m/s 194-195; Mansfield I.760 857. |
Silver Cloud | 1869 | 07/07/1891 | 79.4 x 21.9 x 6.3 | 96 | Schooner | Went ashore north of Port Washington | |
Lottie Cooper | 1876 | 04/09/1894 | 131 x 27 x 9 | 252 | Schooner | Capsized and landed on the beach just north of the North Pier | |
Quickstep | 1874 | 05/13/1895 | unknown | unknown | Schooner | Beached in a storm at Sheboygan 5/13/1895, released 6/4/1895 cf. | Detroit Free Press, 5/14/1895; Port Huron Times, 6/5/1895. |
C. Amsden | 1863 | 1897 | 118.9 x 26 x 8.2 | 184 | Schooner | Abandoned in river next to Garton Toy Company | |
Wollin | 1854 | 04/29/1897 | 84 x 18 x 5 | 48 | Schooner | Driven ashore at North Point two miles north. of harbor entrance | |
Minnehaha | 1877 | 11/07/1898 | 75 x 19.8 x 6.8 | 74 | Schooner | Missed piers and went on beach | |
Silver Lake | 1889 | 05/18/1899 | 95 x 20 x 7.6 | 111 | Scow Schooner | Sunk six miles due east of Sheboygan Piers | |
R. H. Becker | 1867 | 05/07/1908 | 108 x 23 x 7.3 | 140 | Scow Schooner | Beached off Michigan Avenue, Sheboygan | |
Grahman Brothers | 1874 | 1909 | 81 x ? x 7 | 82 | Schooner | Abandoned east side of Sheboygan River at foot of Virginia Ave | |
Conquest | 1853 | 06/1899 | 110 x 21 x 8 | 151 | Schooner | Capsized off of North Pier | |
Commerce | 1857 | 11/16/1909 | 141.5 x 31.8 x 10.8 | 327 | Brig | Burned one mile north of Sheboygan at North point | |
Challenge | 1852 | 09/10/1910 | 85.3 x 22.5 x 6.5 | 110 | Schooner | Beached 12 miles south of Sheboygan | |
Lotus | 1867 | 07/04/1915 | 136 x 28.6 x 12 | 281 | Schooner | Burned and put on rocks at North Point | |
Helvetia | 1873 | 09/10/1921 | 204.5 x 35.6 x 13.8 | 793 | Schooner | Scuttled five miles north northeast of Sheboygan | |
Our Son | 1875 | 09/26/1930 | 182.1 x 35.1 x 13.9 | 720 | Schooner | Sank 20 miles northeast of Sheboygan |
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