Photograph
Wrecked Scow Schooner Silver Lake
| Underwater view of the wrecked scow schooner Silver Lake. The ship remains largely intact, but it is split in half where it was run over by the Pere Marquette prior to its sinking. An anchor is resting on the sand forward of its bow ramp. The ship’s foremast remains standing and rigged with a yard. |
| Image ID: | 129326 |
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| Creation Date: | 08 10 2008 |
| Creator Name: | Thomsen, Tamara |
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| Collection Name: | Maritime Preservation and Archeology Program Collection |
| Genre: | Photograph |
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| The scow schooner Silver Lake lies upright in 200 feet of water with nearly all hull structure and rigging intact. M.L. Johnson constructed the small scow schooner in 1889 at a remote shipyard in Little Point Sable, Michigan. She operated primarily in the Lake Michigan lumber trade at the height of the lumber boom. At 2:30AM on 28 May 1900, while en route from Eagle Harbor (Ephraim) to Racine, Wisconsin, the Silver Lake encountered a dense fog off Manitowoc and was run down by the car ferry Pere Marquette with the loss of one of her crew. For more information visit the Wisconsin Shipwrecks website. |
| Underwater photography |
| Underwater exploration |
| Marine accidents |
| Ships |
| Michigan, Lake |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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