Cecilia Hill
Passenger Steamer · United States · Lost 1906 · Door County & Lake Michigan
A Fish Creek passenger steamer burned beyond repair at its dock in April 1906; the hulk was later moved for stripping.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Cecilia Hill was a wooden steam-screw passenger vessel built by L.L. Hill at Fish Creek, Wisconsin, in 1896. Fish Creek Transportation Co. owned the 93-foot steamer, whose home port was Milwaukee. On April 7, 1906, fire discovered about 8:45 p.m. burned off its upperworks and badly damaged the hull; nobody was aboard when the fire began, and the ignition cause remains unknown. Three days later the owners declared it too badly burned to rebuild. The hulk was beached at Horseshoe Island and later moved to Sturgeon Bay to be stripped of useful material.
Vessel
- 1896
- US registry no. 127154
- L.L. Hill
- Fish Creek, Wisconsin
- Wood
- 93 ft
- 19 ft
- 93 gross tons
- Steam; screw propeller
- Fish Creek Transportation Co.
Loss
- April 7, 1906
- Fire
- At its dock in Fish Creek, Wisconsin; burned hull later moved to Horseshoe Island and Sturgeon Bay
- Green Bay
- Not established
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- 0
- No terminal casualty total independently established; the account explicitly says nobody was aboard at fire outbreak.
- Not established
The Wreck Today
- Not established
- Burned beyond rebuilding, relocated and designated for stripping; present remains not established.
- Not established
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- Not established
Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Fish Creek, Wisconsin
Institutional map locality is not a surveyed final wreck position; coordinates omitted.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (89/100)
The ignition cause, final casualty total, final hull position, depth and present remains are not established; no later sinking date is asserted.
Wisconsin Shipwrecks — Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant
Complete construction table and destructive fire narrative; identity spelling variation, April 7, 1906 fire, nobody aboard at outbreak, unknown ignition and later burned-hull relocations retained.
