LEN-DER Charters
Great Lakes Shipwreck Diving
Car Ferry Milwaukee
OTHER NAMES:
Built as MANISTIQUE & NORTHERN NO.1, renamed in 1909
VESSEL SPECIFICATIONS:
338x56x19, 2933g, 1755n
VESSEL TYPE:
Car Ferry
DEPTH TO DECK:
90 ft (27 meters)
DEPTH TO BOTTOM:
120 ft (36 meters)
HOW IT SUNK:
Sailed off into a storm, bound Milwaukee for Grand Haven, MI and was lost. The theory is that rail cars came loose in gale and crashed through her seagate, allowing water to come in over the stern and sink her. Her skipper apparently turned back for Milwaukee, but never made it... Some of her lifeboats were launched, two bodies were picked up two days later by the steamer STEEL CHEMIST. Another lifeboat containing bodies washed up near holland, MI.. it was routine for her to challenge the storm, she was built for it.
DATE OF LOSS:
1929, October 22nd
PLACE OF LOSS:
On a line between Milwaukee, WI and Grand Haven, MI
LIVES LOST:
52 of 52
