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    VESSEL NAME:   Milwaukee
    OTHER NAME(s): -
    OFFICIAL NO:   -
    DATE OF LOSS:  28 November 1859
    CAUSE OF LOSS: Collision  
    LOCATION:      Near Ile Aux Galets, Lake Michigan
    RIG TYPE:      Propeller, bulk freight
    HULL TYPE:     Wood
    BUILDER:       built 1853
    OWNER(S):      American Transportation Co.
    MASTER:        Capt. Levi Hunt
    TONNAGE:       abt. 600 t
    DIMENSIONS:    ?
    CASUALTIES:    0

                   Downbound Milwaukee to Buffalo with 10,000
                 bushels of wheat and about 2,500 barrels of
                 flour when the upbound schooner J. H. TIFFANY
                 cut across her bow. The unavoidable collision
                 sent both vessels to the bottom. No lives were
                 lost from the MILWAUKEE and the survivors were
                 picked up by the propeller FREE STATE which was
                 close at hand.
                 
                   In 1874 the engine and boiler were raised
                 from the wreck by the Lake Michigan Wrecking
                 Company.

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Sources: J. B. Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes" Vol. I, 1899
         Buffalo Daily Republic - 5 December 1859
         Detroit Free Press - 2 December 1859