On Sept 29, 1919, heading from Buffalo to Milwaukee hauling 3000 tons of coal, she caught fire and sank off Cana Island. It sank in 1867 carrying merchandise for two stores in Manitowoc, after colliding with a larger ship. Ĥ3☃6′17″N 87☄1′17″W / 43.604833°N 87.688167°W / 43.604833 -87.688167 ( Byron (schooner) Shipwreck)ģ6-foot wooden schooner - probably the Byron, which was built around 1849 for William Burmeister and hauled lumber and merchandise around Lake Michigan. They are the 212-foot steamer Empire State built in 1862, the 134-foot centerboard schooner Oak Leaf, and the 168-foot schooner-barge Ida Corning. All hauled limestone for the Sturgeon Bay Stone Company at the ends of their lives and were burned in 1931. Remains of three ships visible in shallow water from shore.
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