Resumption
Schooner · Lost 1914 · Door County & Lake Michigan
After 35 years, a three-masted lumber schooner missed stays in Death's Door in 1914 and drove onto the Plum Island beach.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Wolf and Davidson built the three-masted schooner Resumption at Milwaukee in 1879 for the Ford River Lumber Company. On November 7, 1914, bound from Chicago to Wells, Michigan, for her last lumber of the season, she missed stays while coming about abreast of Plum Island and was driven onto the beach. The tug Torrent, two steamers and the cutter Tuscarora could not free her. All seven crew were saved, and she was stripped and abandoned.
Vessel
- 1879
- US registry no. 110384
- Wolf & Davidson
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Wood
- 143.4 ft
- 29 ft
- 293 gross tons
- Sail
- Not established
Loss
- November 7, 1914
- Navigational error
- Beach near Plum Island, Death's Door, Door County, Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
- Chicago, Illinois → Wells, Michigan
- None (going for lumber)
- 7
- 0
- Not established
The Wreck Today
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Northport, Wisconsin
Institutional inventory position not used; surveyed provenance not established.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (84/100)
Depth and surveyed position are not established in the source reviewed.
Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant — Wisconsin Shipwrecks: Resumption
Construction table and complete Final Voyage narrative read; underlying newspapers not independently inspected.
