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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

KENOSHA

Official No: 222887
Type of Ship: propeller, steel, passenger & package freight
Place of Loss: at her layup dock at Milwaukee
Type/Cause: fire
Cargo: none
More details:
Date Built: 1919
Builder: Universal Shipbuilding
Where Built: Sturgeon Bay, WI as large tug hull #122
Size: 143x30x18, 763g 519n

KEVINBREN

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KEWAUNEE

Specs: 109x33x10, 680t
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Details: owned by US Army Corp of Engineers, Milw. District

KIRK WHITE

Type at Loss: schooner, wood, 2-mast
Official No.: 14041
Built: 1852, G. Barber, Milwaukee
Specs: 102x25x8, 124 t. (also reported as 184t in 1864)
Enrollment: Milwaukee, also Chicago and Detroit
Owner: James Porter
Date of Loss: Oct. 14 1869
Place of Loss: Saginaw Bay at Pinnepog
Lake Lost: Huron
Type/Cause: storm
Lives Lost: unknown
Cargo: lumber
Details: She waterlogged in a gale and sank between the piers. Out of Detroit. Sunk at Milwaukee in Oct. 1852, and at Bois Blanc, Mackinaw in 1856 She had a scow bottom

KITTY GRANT

Type at Loss: schooner, wood, 2-mast, bulk freight
Official No.: 14035
Built: 1853, G. Barber, Milwaukee
Specs: 78x21x7, 75g 85t
Enrollment: Milwaukee, also Chicago
owner: S.B. Grant
Date of Loss: Oct. 8 1884
Place of Loss: 20 mi off Little Sable Point
Lake Lost: Michigan
Type/Cause: storm
Lives Lost: 4 (all)
Cargo: Lumber
Details: Bound Pentwater, MI, for Chicago, she capsized and foundered in a gale. Her overturned hull sank during an attempt to tow it in. Hailed from Saugatuck, MI. Capsized in a terriffic gale off Racine in late October, 1855. Four passengers died and the rest of those aboard clung to the wreck for 36 hours until rescued by the schooner FLORA WATSON.