The Hanover is the wreck of a schooner located off the coast of
Fish Creek, Wisconsin.
[ (Archived August 11, 2018)]
History
The Hanover was built in 1853. It hauled bulk cargo, primarily grain, across the upper
Great Lakes. The vessel struck a
shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It ...
near the
Strawberry Islands in November 1867. As a result, it was stripped and abandoned.
In 2014, the shipwreck was re-discovered. The following year, it was added to the State and the
National Register of Historic Places.
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References
Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Door County, Wisconsin
Shipwrecks of the Wisconsin coast
Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan
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