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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 .
[4] [11] An 81-day public comment period and a series of four meetings in the Wisconsin towns of Algoma, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Port Washington during the week of March 13, 2017, followed which led NOAA to alter the sanctuary's boundaries, reducing its area to 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), including 36 known historic shipwrecks, and to ...
Hauled grain east from Chicago to Buffalo or Oswego and coal west. Sank while being towed through a storm in 1880 and now sits under 175 feet of water, very intact. [151] 69: Wisconsin shipwreck (iron steamer) Wisconsin shipwreck (iron steamer) October 7, 2009 : 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south-southeast of Kenosha [22
Closest shipwreck to the mouth of the Buffalo River: Narragansett: 11 June 1880 A passenger paddle steamer of the Stonington Line that burned and sank on 11 June 1880, after a collision with her sister ship Stonington in heavy fog at 23:30 in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 passengers, but only one crewman, died. Nisbet Grammer United Kingdom
On August 23, 1907 while bound for Duluth, Minnesota from Bayfield, Wisconsin, the E.T. Carrington sank in a storm with no fatalities. [57] Fayling: Wooden tug 1884 1947 Dismantled and scuttled near Duluth, Minnesota in 1947. [58] F.W. Gillett: Wooden tug 1869 1916 Abandoned near Two Harbors, Minnesota (some sources state Duluth, Minnesota) in ...
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A wooden boat carrying migrants from Haiti that capsized near West Caicos. General Pershing United States: 11 July 1921 A schooner that was wrecked on Endymion Rock. Molasses Reef Wreck: Unknown Unknown Early 16th-century Spanish shipwreck, the earliest European shipwreck in the Americas to be scientifically excavated. Trouvadore Spain: March 1841
The West Virginia State Police was first formed in 1919, at the direction of Governor John Jacob Cornwell, who deemed that a state-level law enforcement agency "was mandatory in order for him to uphold the laws of our state." Part of the compromise was the name of the organization: "West Virginia Department of Public Safety" was the official ...