Stories from the Shipwreck Coast
The SS Selah Chamberlain, a wooden steam freighter built in 1873, sank in 1886 after a foggy collision off Sheboygan, Wisconsin, resulting in five deaths and later becoming a notable shipwreck site.
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The SS Toledo, a celebrated 1854 passenger steamer, sank in a fierce 1856 storm off Port Washington, Wisconsin, killing all but three aboard and leaving a scattered wreck now part of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast NMS.
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The Rouse Simmons, a schooner known as the “Christmas Tree Ship,” sank in a 1912 storm on Lake Michigan en route to Chicago, killing all aboard and leaving its cargo of trees scattered and still preserved in the wreck today.
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