Ocean Wave

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The Ocean Wave lies in 110 feet of water two miles off Whitefish Point, Door County, Wisconsin. The Ocean Wave was built in 1860 as a two-masted scow schooner at Harsens Island, MI. “On September 23,1869, the Ocean Wave took on 23 cords of stone at Mud Bay in Door County for delivery to a harbor improvement project at White Lake, Michigan. Out on the lake about 5am, the heavily loaded scow hit a piece of floating timber, producing a horrific leak. The shattered craft sank in a mere 20 minutes. The panicked crew abandoned ship and began rowing the lifeboat toward shore, having escaped with only the clothes on their backs.”