9.5 miles south of the Sheboygan Harbor entrance, in Lake Michigan
Historic Name: | Advance Shipwreck (schooner) |
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Reference Number: | 100009104 |
Location (Address): | 9.5 miles south of the Sheboygan Harbor entrance, in Lake Michigan |
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County: | Sheboygan |
City/Village: | |
Township: | Holland |
Advance Shipwreck (Schooner) 9.5 miles south of the Sheboygan Harbor entrance, in Lake Michigan, Town of Holland, Sheboygan County Builder: J.M. Jones Date of Construction: 1853 As an early wooden schooner, Advance provides historians and archaeologists the chance to study early schooner construction and the Great Lakes lumber and grain trades. Located 9.5 miles southwest of the Sheboygan Harbor entrance, in the town of Holland, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, the schooner Advance sits upright on the silt and clay bottom of Lake Michigan in 85 feet of water. The ship remains broken on the lakebed. Today, the vessel sits upright and broken on the lake bottom with most of its hull components extant and artifacts located within the hull, including the vessel’s centerboard, windlass, bowsprit, and jibboom. Advance was built at the shipyard of J.M. Jones in 1853 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The vessel operated in the Great Lakes lumber and grain trades throughout its career. On 8 September 1885, the vessel began to leak during a gale while carrying a cargo of bark wood. Eventually, the vessel became fully waterlogged and capsized while 9.5 miles southeast of Sheboygan. The captain, four crew members, and two passengers made it to the vessel’s yawl but drowned within 200 feet of shore when the small boat overturned in the crashing surf, leaving only one survivor. State and federal laws protect this shipwreck. Divers may not remove artifacts or structure when visiting this site. Removing, defacing, displacing, or destroying artifacts or sites is a crime. More information on Wisconsin’s historic shipwrecks may be found by visiting Wisconsin’s Great Lakes Shipwrecks website. |
Period of Significance: | 1853-1885 |
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Area of Significance: | Archeology/Historic - Non-Aboriginal |
Applicable Criteria: | Information Potential |
Historic Use: | Commerce/Trade: Trade (Archeology) |
Resource Type: | Site |
Architect: | Jones, J.M. |
Historic Status: | Listed in the State Register |
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Historic Status: | Listed in the National Register |
National Register Listing Date: | 07/05/2023 |
State Register Listing Date: | 02/24/2023 |
Number of Contributing Buildings: | 0 |
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Number of Contributing Sites: | 1 |
Number of Contributing Structures: | 0 |
Number of Contributing Objects: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Sites: | 1 |
Number of Non-Contributing Structures: | 0 |
Number of Non-Contributing Objects: | 0 |
National Register and State Register of Historic Places, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |