S.L. Noble
Schooner · Lost 1868 · Door County & Lake Michigan
One of the oldest schooners on the lake, built in 1846, pounded to pieces at a Clay Banks pier in an 1868 gale.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Erastus Lockwood built the two-masted schooner S.L. Noble at Fairport, Ohio, in 1846; at loss she was owned in Racine. On November 16, 1868, after loading cordwood at T.F. Gillilland's pier at Clay Banks, she was trapped by a southeast gale and pounded on the shallow bottom until it was destroyed. By November 18 a correspondent at Ahnapee reported she had gone to pieces at the pier.
Vessel
- 1846
- US registry no. 23103
- Erastus Lockwood
- Fairport, Ohio
- Wood
- 96.6 ft
- 20 ft
- 110 gross tons
- Sail
- Not established
Loss
- November 16, 1868
- Storm
- T.F. Gillilland's pier, Clay Banks, Door County, Wisconsin
- Lake Michigan
- Not established
- Cordwood
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The Wreck Today
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Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Clay Banks, Wisconsin
Institutional inventory position not used; surveyed provenance not established.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (84/100)
Crew numbers, casualties, depth and surveyed position are not established in the source reviewed.
Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Sea Grant — Wisconsin Shipwrecks: S.L. Noble
Construction table and complete Final Voyage narrative read; underlying newspapers not independently inspected.
