Shipwreck · Lake Michigan · Foundered
Tennie and Laura
A scow Schooner - Freighter built in 1876, lost on Lake Michigan in 1903. The record: “Sunk in storm nine miles southeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin in 1903.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Scow Schooner - Freighter
- Builder
- Gunder Jorgenson
- Completed
- 1876
- Length
- 73 ft (22 m)
- Beam
- 19 ft (6 m)
- Tonnage
- 56.69 gross
- Crew
- 2
- Fate
- Sunk in storm nine miles southeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin in 1903
- Wreck site
- Nine miles to the southeast of Port Washington
- National Register
- Listed April 11, 2008 · ref. 08000288
- Lake
- Lake Michigan
- Coordinates
- 43.2608° N, 87.7272° W
The same year
Also lost in 1903
- SS Erie L. HackleyMichigan · foundered
- SS Walter L. FrostMichigan · stranded
- MoonlightSuperior
- SS MarquetteSuperior · foundered
The same decade
Michigan losses of the 1900s
- R. J. Hackett1905 · foundered
- SS Appomattox1905 · stranded
- SS Atlanta1906
- SS Eastland1905
- SS Francis Hinton1909
- SS S. C. Baldwin1908 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Michigan wrecks
- Northerner6.1 mi · lost 1868
- Niagara (1856)6.1 mi · lost 1856
- SS J. M. Allmendinger8.9 mi · lost 1895
- SS Senator9.5 mi · lost 1929
- SS Milwaukee (1929)10 mi · lost 1929
- SS Appomattox14 mi · lost 1905
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Port Washington - Lake Michigan11 mi
- McKinley Park Marina16 mi
- River Front Launching Site19 mi
- South Shore Park Boat Ramp20 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
On shore
Worth the stop
- Kohler-Andrae State Park28 mi · dunes
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Tennie and Laura (schooner), 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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