Silver Lake
Scow Schooner · Lost 1900 · Chicago & Southern Lake Michigan
The scow schooner Silver Lake was cut nearly in two by the steel car ferry Pere Marquette in dense fog in 1900; her mate was lost.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1889, the two-masted scow schooner Silver Lake left Manitowoc on May 27, 1900, with 80 cords of maple for Racine. Early the next morning First Mate Eastman was sounding her foghorn in dense fog when he heard a steamer's signal drawing closer. The crew had just been roused when the steel bow of the new car ferry Pere Marquette burst out of the fog and nearly cut her in two. Eastman was thrown overboard and never found; the ferry rescued the others. Silver Lake drifted upside down before sinking.
Vessel
- 1889
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- Wood
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Loss
- May 28, 1900
- Collision
- Off Cleveland, Wisconsin, between Sheboygan and Manitowoc
- Lake Michigan
- Manitowoc, Wisconsin → Racine, Wisconsin
- 80 cords of maple wood
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The Wreck Today
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Position
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- Cleveland, 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) — Silver Lake
Specification table and final-voyage text read; quoted newspapers not independently inspected.
