LaSalle
Canal Schooner · Lost 1875 · Chicago & Southern Lake Michigan
The year-old wheat schooner LaSalle lost her rudder in a gale and stuck fast in the quicksands of Rawley Point in 1875.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1874 as a three-masted canal schooner, LaSalle loaded 22,000 bushels of wheat at Chicago for Buffalo in October 1875. Sailing north into a gale on the night of October 25, she unshipped her rudder off Two Rivers Point, now Rawley Point, struck bottom and drifted into the quicksands there. She filled, and her crew spent the night in the rigging until Two Rivers fishermen rescued them at dawn. Tugs from Milwaukee could not free her, and she was stripped and abandoned as a total loss.
Vessel
- 1874
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- Wood
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Loss
- October 25, 1875
- Storm
- Two Rivers Point (Rawley Point), near Two Rivers, Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
- Chicago, Illinois → Buffalo, New York
- 22,000 bushels of wheat
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- Capt. Parker
The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Two Rivers, 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) — LaSalle
Specification table and final-voyage text read; quoted newspapers not independently inspected.
