Home 1858
Marker: recorded wreck position (Steam era).
Key facts
| Name | Home | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 1858 | English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed) |
| Era | Steam era | derived from year |
| Ship type | schooner | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Nationality / flag | United States | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Nearest coast | United States | Natural Earth (public domain) |
| Position | 43.9472, -87.5547 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
Home was a two-masted schooner which sank in Lake Michigan off Centerville in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States, in 1858. In 2010 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Diving & visiting
Several newspapers gave an incorrect location for the collision, and Home′s wreck was not discovered until April 1981. It lies in 165 to 170 feet (50 to 52 m) of water about 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) southeast of Manitowoc at 43°56.932′N 087°33.211′W. Added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 2010, the shipwreck site was included within the boundaries of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary when it was created in 2021.
Home is the second-oldest shipwreck in Wisconsin's waters, preceded only by the 1833 schooner Gallinipper, which sank in 1851.
Location
- Recorded position: 43.9472, -87.5547 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Nearest coast: United States
Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Home (shipwreck) (revision 1373398259), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section and section(s) “Wreck”; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby wrecks
- Arctic 20 km
- SS Selah Chamberlain 1886 · 21 km
- Gallinipper 23 km
- Robert C. Pringle 1922 · 28 km
- SS S.C. Baldwin 1908 · 29 km
- SS Pere Marquette 18 1910 · 30 km
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