Carrington
Schooner · Lost 1870 · Door County & Lake Michigan
A bulk-cargo schooner lost on a Green Bay reef after its captain mistook a light in fog.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Carrington was built at Cleveland in 1853 for the Great Lakes bulk cargo trade. The wooden two-masted schooner sailed from Green Bay for Chicago with pig iron and shingles on October 29, 1870. Early the next morning its captain mistook a light and grounded on the reef southwest of Hat Island. The crew escaped in the small boat, and subsequent winds rolled the vessel onto its port side.
Vessel
- 1853
- US registry no. 4342
- Lafrinnier and Stevenson
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Wood
- 120 ft
- 24.6 ft
- 215.7
- Sail
- Not established
Loss
- October 30, 1870
- Grounding
- Reef off the southwest point of Hat Island, Green Bay
- Green Bay
- Green Bay, Wisconsin → Chicago, Illinois
- Pig iron and shingles
- Not established
- Not established
- Michael Connell
The Wreck Today
- 32–57 feet
- Broken into several flattened sections; upper bow, stern, deck and port side missing from the main site.
- Not established
- Not established
- Owned by Wisconsin and protected under state law; managed by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
Institutional inventory and older narrative publish differing positions near Hat Island; no exact position chosen.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (85/100)
Casualty totals and current dive conditions are not established in the source reviewed.
Wisconsin Shipwrecks — Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant
Vessel identity, registry number, dimensions, builder, year, two-masted schooner rig, service and loss narrative; full source body retained in sources/.
