AH-WR-1812

Arkansas

Schooner · United States · Lost June 1858; day not established. · Chicago & Southern Lake Michigan

A two-masted schooner recovered from an earlier Lake Erie casualty broke up outside Kenosha harbor in June 1858.

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Artistic recreation based on recorded historical documents. See the documented evidence.

Interpretive Reconstruction, drawn to convey the vessel's era, type and general form. See the documented evidence.

The Vessel and Her Loss

Arkansas was built in New York in 1849 as a wooden, two-masted, single-deck schooner with a scroll head. It carried railroad iron when it stranded at Long Point in 1852, but was raised and repaired in 1853. Another stranding at Green Bay in 1855 did not end its career. In June 1858 it missed Kenosha harbor, grounded just north of the piers, and broke up as a total loss; its lumber cargo was reported saved.

Vessel

Built: 1849
Builder: Not established
Yard: Sherwins Bay, New York
Material: Wood
Length: 107 ft
Beam: 23.9 ft
Tonnage: 240.43 gross tons
Propulsion: Sail
Owners: Not established

Loss

Date: June 1858; day not established.
Cause: Grounding
Location: Bar just north of the harbor piers at Kenosha, Wisconsin
Water: Lake Michigan
Voyage: Not established
Cargo: Lumber
Aboard: Not established
Lives lost: Not established
Master: Not established

The Wreck Today

Depth: Not established
Condition: Reported broken up in 1858; present remains and condition are not established in the institutional account.
Orientation: Not established
Discovered: Not established
Protection: Not established