The Success is a shipwreck located off the coast of

Whitefish Dunes State Park Whitefish Dunes State Park is a state park of Wisconsin on the eastern shore of the Door Peninsula. This day-use park preserves the most substantial sand dunes on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The remains of eight successive prehistor ...

in Sevastopol, Wisconsin.

History

The ''Success'' was built by Norwegian immigrant Julius Johnson in Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1875. The vessel primarily hauled lumber on

Lake Michigan Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that o ...

. On Thanksgiving of 1896, the ship was anchored at Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin in an attempt to wait out a storm. However, it began taking on water and was eventually pushed ashore by a gale. All crew members were rescued and the cargo would be salvaged, but the ship was declared to be a total loss. The site was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

References

{{NRHP Lake Michigan shipwrecks of Wisconsin, state=collapsed 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