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Scow-Schooner · United States · Lost 1876 · Door County & Lake Michigan
Broken steering disabled Home at Racine in November 1876; all five aboard escaped before the scow-schooner broke up.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Home was a wooden two-masted scow-schooner built in Milwaukee in 1867 by Ellsworth & Davidson. On November 14, 1876, she was carrying lumber and attempting to enter Racine harbor when her steering apparatus broke. She went ashore beside the north pier and broke her bottom, reportedly on the wreck of Scott. The captain and four crew escaped in the lifeboat; the Life-Saving Service salvaged about half the cargo before the vessel went to pieces.
Vessel
- 1867
- US registry no. 42215
- Ellsworth & Davidson
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Wood
- 84.9 ft
- 23.2 ft
- 91.77 gross tons
- Sail
- Captain Thomas Anderson (final owner)
Loss
- November 14, 1876
- Mechanical failure
- Next to the north pier at Racine harbor, Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
- Not established
- Lumber
- 5
- 0
- Not established
The Wreck Today
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Racine, Wisconsin
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (80/100)
Surviving remains and present depth are not established; voyage destination conflicts between Racine and Chicago, so no destination is asserted.
Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant — Wisconsin Shipwrecks
Construction, rig and dimensions; November 14, 1876 loss, steering failure, escape and cargo salvage; conflicting destination disclosed.
