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The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The Wisconsin was an iron-hulled package steamer built in 1881 that sank in 1929 in Lake Michigan off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
MANITOWOC – The Wisconsin Maritime Museum, 75 Maritime Drive in downtown Manitowoc, has a trio of events coming up in early August.Here’s a look: Think & Drink Series: “Wreck of RMS Titanic ...
The four Iowa-class battleships off the Virginia Capes on 7 June 1954; from front to back is USS Iowa, USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri and USS New Jersey The sister ships RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic at Belfast on 6 March 1912 The sister ships Majesty of the Seas and Monarch of the Seas in Nassau, Bahamas in 2011
N. Duluth Ave., Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin Coordinates 44°50′37″N 87°23′43″W / 44.84361°N 87.39528°W / 44.84361; -87.39528 ( Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological
The ship was built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, at a cost of $23,000 and was named after Christina Nilsson. [2]On October 23, 1884, Christina Nilsson cleared Escanaba, Michigan, bound for Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of pig iron. [3]
SS Vernon was a wooden-hulled American passenger and package freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on October 29, 1887, near Two Rivers, Wisconsin, with the loss of between 36 and 50 lives, making her one of the deadliest shipwrecks ever to have occurred in Wisconsin. Only one of the people on board survived.
The SS Francis Hinton was a wooden-hulled steam barge that sank in a gale off the coast of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan in 1909 while heavily laden with a cargo of lumber. [4] On December 16, 1996, the wreck of the Francis Hinton was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .