Lottie Cooper
Schooner · Lost 1894 · Chicago & Southern Lake Michigan
The three-masted schooner Lottie Cooper capsized at anchor off Sheboygan in an April gale in 1894; Life-Savers rescued five of six aboard.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1876, the three-masted schooner Lottie Cooper was bringing elm lumber from Pine Lake, Michigan, to Sheboygan when a northwest gale caught her on the evening of April 8, 1894. Unable to signal a tug, her crew anchored to wait for dawn. By morning she was flooding and her bulwarks were washing away. Before help arrived she capsized and sank, her cargo tangling in the rigging. Life-Savers and the tug Sheboygan saved five people; one man drowned on a raft of planks.
Vessel
- 1876
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- Wood
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Loss
- April 9, 1894
- Storm
- Off Sheboygan harbor, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
- Pine Lake, Michigan → Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- About 230,000 board feet of elm lumber
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The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Sheboygan, 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) — Lottie Cooper
Specification table and final-voyage text read; quoted newspapers not independently inspected.
