M. Courtwright
Schooner · Lost 1871 · Chicago & Southern Lake Michigan
Waterlogged in a November gale off Racine, the lumber schooner M. Courtwright drifted ashore near Kenosha a complete wreck.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
DeWolf built the two-masted schooner M. Courtwright at Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1856. Carrying lumber, she became waterlogged near Racine in a gale on November 9, 1871, and was abandoned, drifting onto the beach just north of Kenosha a complete wreck. Workmen digging a water intake uncovered her buried hull in 1915; divers imaged her remains in 2019.
Vessel
- 1856
- Official no. 16393
- DeWolf
- Erie, Pennsylvania
- Wood
- 135.8 ft
- 28.7 ft
- Not established
- Sail
- Not established
Loss
- November 9, 1871
- Storm
- Beach north of Kenosha harbor, Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
- Not established
- 225,000 feet of lumber
- Not established
- 0
- Not established
The Wreck Today
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Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Kenosha, Wisconsin
No pin: Wisconsin Shipwrecks inventory positions are not used as wreck pins.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Partially documented (70/100)
Original newspaper accounts are quoted by the source and were not independently inspected.
Wisconsin Shipwrecks (Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant) — M. Courtwright
Specification table, service history and final-voyage text read; quoted newspapers not independently inspected.
