Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
Lizzie Throop
A schooner built in 1849, lost on Lake Michigan in 1873. The record: “Foundered and sunk during a storm on October 18, 1873 in Lake Michigan.”
Lost on Lake Michigan
1873
Lizzie Throop
Schooner · built 1849 · lost 1873
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Schooner
- Builder
- J. O'Connor of Mill Point, Michigan, United States
- Launched
- 1849
- Length
- 86 ft (26 m)
- Beam
- 21 ft (6 m)
- Tonnage
- 97 at time of sinking
- Propulsion
- Sail
- Crew
- 8
- Fate
- Foundered and sunk during a storm on October 18, 1873 in Lake Michigan.
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1870s
- Equinox1875 · foundered
- Grace A. Channon1877 · collision
- SS Merchant1875
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Lizzie Throop, retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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