G.L. Newman
Bark (or Barque) · Lost 1871 · Door County & Lake Michigan
The lumber bark G.L. Newman ran aground on Green Island on the night of the Peshtigo Fire in 1871, blinded by its smoke.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1855, the three-masted bark G.L. Newman left Little Suamico with lumber on October 8, 1871, the night of the Great Peshtigo Fire. Smoke lay so thick on Green Bay that the Green Island lightkeeper, Samuel Drew, had kept his light burning through the day. Sailing blind, she ran onto the shoals off the island at 9 p.m. Drew rescued her crew, who stayed at the lighthouse for a week. She filled and was abandoned, and her rigging was later salvaged.
Vessel
- 1855
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- Wood
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Loss
- October 8, 1871
- Grounding
- Shoals on the southeast side of Green Island, Green Bay
- Lake Michigan
- Little Suamico, Wisconsin
- Lumber
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- 0
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The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Marinette, Wisconsin
No pin: Wisconsin Shipwrecks inventory positions are not used as wreck pins.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (75/100)
Original newspaper accounts are quoted by the source and were not independently inspected.
Wisconsin Shipwrecks (Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant) — G.L. Newman
Specification table and final-voyage text read; quoted newspapers not independently inspected.
