Margaret A. Muir
Schooner · Lost 1893 · Door County & Lake Michigan
The salt schooner Margaret A. Muir keeled over and sank off Ahnapee in 1893; all seven aboard rowed ashore.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1872, the three-masted schooner Margaret A. Muir was carrying 650 tons of salt on Lake Michigan when, on the morning of September 30, 1893, about three miles off Ahnapee, she fell into the trough of the sea and an enormous wave swept her deck. Captain David Clow and his six men got away in the yawl as she keeled over and sank, and all reached the beach. Her standing masts became a hazard and were dynamited the next summer. It was Clow's third ship lost in three years.
Vessel
- 1872
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- Wood
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Loss
- September 30, 1893
- Storm
- About three miles off Ahnapee (now Algoma), Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
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- 650 tons of salt
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- Capt. David Clow
The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Algoma, 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) — Margaret A. Muir
Specification table and final-voyage text read; quoted newspapers not independently inspected.
