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Shipwreck

Agnes Behrman (1883)

Ship Master: C.O. Pedersen
Nearby City: Gills Rock, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Meridian (1848)

Location: Sank off Sister Island in Lake Michigan. The remains can be located directly off the tip of the fantail gravel shoal which extends south from the east point of Little Sister Island. the end of the reef drops sharply into 25 feet of water; part of the wreck is buried in the gravel at the base of the reef. A larger section lies slightly off this buried segment in about 30-40 feet of water.
Ship Master: Calvin Gray
Nearby City: Sister Bay, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Ebenezer (1890)

Ship Master: Fordel Hogenson
Nearby City: Ephraim, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Lucia A. Simpson (1875)

Location: Was towed to a backwater near the Bay Shipbuilding Company and left there along with the Petoskey, Sheboygan and E.G. Crosby.
Ship Master: Captain Hans Simenson
Nearby City: Sturgeon Bay, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

City of Kalamazoo (1893)

Nearby City: Little Sturgeon, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Petrus

Nearby City: Egg Harbor, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Etta (18??)

Nearby City: Sturgeon Bay, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Dan Hayes (1868)

Location: See map (figure 2) in EC U report No. 17: From Quarry to Quay: Shipwrecks of McCracken's Cove
Nearby City: Sturgeon Bay, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Maria (1866)

Location: Ashore on the beach at Hedgehog Harbor
Ship Master: Peter Anderson
Nearby City: Gills Rock, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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William Finch (1878)

Ship Master: W.P. Kirtland
Nearby City: Egg Harbor, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Farrand H. Williams (1882)

Location: Horseshoe Bay in Green Bay.
Ship Master: C.O. Pedersen
Nearby City: Egg Harbor, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Mariner (1854)

Location: Run aground on Green Island, Green Bay, Lake Michigan.
Nearby City: Marinette, Marinette County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Ontario (1846)

Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Charles A. Eddy (1889)

Nearby City: Sturgeon Bay, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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unidentified wreckage (i)

Nearby City: Little Sturgeon, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Webster Batchelder (1880)

Ship Master: Captain Dalton
Nearby City: Dyckesville, Brown County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Union (1867)

Nearby City: Ephraim, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Dollie M. (1893)

Location: Schumacher's (Shoemaker's?) on the east side of Green Bay in Lake Michigan. Possibly could be a short distance north at Sherwood Point.
Ship Master: George Miller
Body of water: Green Bay
Shipwreck

Thomas C. Wilson (1868)

Ship Master: John Devine
Nearby City: Egg Harbor, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay
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Joseph L. Hurd (1869)

Location: Approximately 100 feet north of the Leathem & Smith quarry located 7 miles north of Sturgeon Bay; County Highway B.
Nearby City: Sturgeon Bay, Door County
Body of water: Green Bay

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