CORNELIA WINDIATE

Other names : none also seen as CORNELIA B. WINDIATE

Official no. : 12537

Type at loss : schooner, wood, 3-mast

Build info : 1873, Thos. Windiate, Manitowoc, WI

Specs : 136x26x12, 322 t.

Date of loss : 1875, Dec 10

Place of loss : off Middle Isl. near Rogers City, MI

Lake : Huron

Type of loss : storm

Loss of life : 9 [all]

Carrying : wheat

Detail : Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, she became trapped in ice, cut and sunk. She was
not reported as having passed the Straits and her spars were reported sticking out of the
water near the Fox Islands, so she was thought for over 100 year to have been lost in
Lake Michigan. She was discovered on the bottom of Lake Huron in 1987, in excellent
condition.

Alpena, MI

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