Buckeye State
Bark (or Barque) · United States · Lost Terminal breakup occurred days after the initial November 5, 1852 grounding; exact final-loss date not supplied. · Chicago & Southern Lake Michigan
A new three-masted bark was raised after grounding at Milwaukee in 1852, only to be wrecked by a later gale.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Buckeye State was built by Amos Hubbard at Black River, Ohio, in 1852. The new wooden three-masted bark had made only one trip to Chicago before its loss sequence. Carrying apples and cider for Milwaukee and railroad iron for Chicago, it missed Milwaukee’s entrance on November 5, 1852, lost spars and grounded despite dropping both anchors. Men raised it with pumps days later and moved it to the government piers, but another gale beached it again and it went to pieces just north of the piers. Its remains have not been found according to Wisconsin Shipwrecks.
Vessel
- 1852
- Amos Hubbard
- Black River, Ohio
- Wood
- 132.42 ft
- 25.83 ft
- Not established
- Sail; three-masted bark
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Loss
- Terminal breakup occurred days after the initial November 5, 1852 grounding; exact final-loss date not supplied.
- Storm
- Just north of the government piers near the old river mouth, south end of present-day Jones Island, Milwaukee Bay
- Lake Michigan
- Milwaukee and Chicago (cargo destinations)
- Apples and cider for Milwaukee; 289 tons of railroad iron for Chicago (cargo recorded for initial casualty)
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The Wreck Today
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- Remains have not been found according to the institutional account.
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Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Institutional map coordinates have no survey provenance in the source and are omitted.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Well documented (90/100)
The exact date of the terminal breakup, casualty count, depth and verified wreck position are not established; the remains have not been found.
Wisconsin Shipwrecks — Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant
Complete construction, service and terminal-loss narrative read; source limitations retained.
