Milwaukee County Wisconsin Genealogy

MILWAUKEE MARINE AND SHIPPING
SHIPWRECKS AND DISASTERS

The following ships were listed in various sources, newspapers 
and publications as having a Milwaukee connection.
This list includes information collected by David D. Swayze, Lake Isabella, MI

ULSTER

Specs: 90x23x7
Enrollment:
Date of Loss:
Place of Loss:
Lake Lost:
Type/Cause:
Lives Lost:
Cargo:
Details: renamed HELEN the year of the accident

UNDINE

Specs: 100t
Enrollment: Milwaukee, also Chicago
Date of Loss:
Place of Loss:
Lake Lost:
Type/Cause:
Lives Lost:
Cargo:
Details: Flat, repaired in 63

UNDINE:
See Campbell bio

UNION

Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec., 1867
Total Loss of Life on the Lakes
During the year 1867

James Conner, sailor, drowned from schr Union at Milwaukee; 1.

UTICA

Specs: 131x26x11, 334 t.
Enrollment: Detroit, also Chicago
Date of Loss: 1854, Nov
Place of Loss: Erie basin of Buffalo harbor
Lake Lost: Erie
Type/Cause: storm
Lives Lost: none
Cargo: barrelled beef
Details: Struck a bar while entering the harbor in heavy seas but light wind. Driven into the shallows, bilged and broke in two. Pounded to pieces by the 25th. Owned by J. Leavenworth of Chicago.

Source: History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
by John G. Gregory Vol. II published 1931

By 1846 a score of vessels had been constructed in Milwaukee. In that year the bark UTICA was built here for a Chicago owner by a marine carpenter named Averill who came up from that city to take advantage of the facility for obtaining cheap and good timber afforded by the contiguity of woods to this town.

See also Norris bio in Marriage section

VERONICA

Specs: 202x35x18, 1093gt 881nt
Enrollment:
Date of Loss: 1919, Aug 11
Place of Loss: Welland Canal at Port Weller Ont.
Lake Lost:
Type/Cause:
Lives Lost:
Cargo:
Details: MURIEL W. 1918-1919 Canada, struck sunken crib, broke in two, was considered a total loss 4 days later