Rosinco
Motor Yacht · Lost 1928 · Chicago & Southern Lake Michigan
The Chicago Yacht Club's palatial flagship struck an unknown obstruction off Kenosha in 1928 and sank as her crew took to the boats.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Harlan and Hollingsworth built the 88-foot steel yacht Rosinco at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1916. Owned by Colonel Robert M. Morse of Chicago and flagship of the Chicago Yacht Club, she left Milwaukee for Chicago late on September 18, 1928. At about 2:45 a.m. on September 19 she struck an unidentified obstruction 12 miles east of Kenosha and sank. All aboard reached lifeboats and were towed in by the Kenosha Coast Guard.
Vessel
- 1916
- US registry no. 214160
- Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation
- Wilmington, Delaware
- Steel
- 88 ft
- 15 ft
- 82 gross tons
- Diesel, screw
- Not established
Loss
- September 19, 1928
- Collision
- Lake Michigan about 12 miles east of Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin → Chicago, Illinois
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- 0
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The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Position not established
- Kenosha, Wisconsin
Institutional inventory position not used; surveyed provenance not established.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (84/100)
Number aboard, depth and surveyed position are not established in the source reviewed.
Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant — Wisconsin Shipwrecks: Rosinco
Construction table and complete Final Voyage narrative read; underlying newspapers not independently inspected.
