Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
Rouse Simmons
A three-masted schooner built in 1868, lost on Lake Michigan in 1912. The record: “Foundered and sunk on November 23, 1912.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Three-masted schooner
- Known as
- Christmas Tree Ship
- Builder
- Allen, McCelland & Co.; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Launched
- August 15, 1868
- Length
- 124 ft (38 m)
- Beam
- 28 ft (9 m)
- Tonnage
- 205 GRT; 195 NRT
- Propulsion
- Sails
- Crew
- 5
- Fate
- Foundered and sunk on November 23, 1912
- Wreck site
- Lake Michigan, 6 mi off Point Beach, Wisconsin
- National Register
- Listed March 21, 2007 · ref. 07000197
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 44.2752° N, 87.4157° W
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1910s
- Plymouth1913 · foundered
- SS Pere Marquette 181910 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- SS Vernon5.0 mi · lost 1887
- SS S. C. Baldwin6.0 mi · lost 1908
- Arctic15 mi · lost 1930
- SS Francis Hinton16 mi · lost 1909
- Home24 mi · lost 1858
- Gallinipper25 mi · lost 1851
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Two Creeks Access6.7 mi
- Point Beach State Forest Kayak Site6.9 mi
- Vets Park and Boat Launch12 mi
- Thiede Road Canoe Access13 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Rawley Point Light6.4 mi
- Two Rivers Light12 mi
- Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse13 mi
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Rouse Simmons, 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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