Shipwreck Daniel Lyons

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Database Information Shipwreck Daniel Lyons

Basic Information

Name(s) Daniel Lyons
Registry  US
Official Number 6780
Vessel Type Canal Schooner
Builder Goble & McFarlane
Year Built 1873
Year Sank 1878
Hull Material Wood
Engines None

Dimensions

Length 137.9 ft
Width 25.9 ft
Depth 11.2 ft

Vessel History

Complete Historic Information Link – https://greatlakeships.org/2901069/data ; https://wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/129?region=Index

Wreck Site Information

Lake Michigan
State or Province Wisconsin
Depth 110 ft
GPS Coordinates N 44° 40.261′ W 087° 17.708′
Site Description The Daniel Lyons is badly broken but most of the pieces are extant on site. The following site description is from WHS website: “The Daniel Lyons site represents a nearly complete Great Lakes schooner. The collapsed hull exposes many construction details not visible on more intact vessels. Both hull sides have collapsed to port, and the stern area is scattered off the starboard quarter. The centerboard trunk remains intact and standing, complete with the centerboard chain running from the centerboard inside the trunk to the centerboard winch lying off the trunk’s port side. Both stem and stern posts are intact with deadwood. Much of the running rigging is strewn about the wreck site, including masts, topmasts, gaffs, booms, and wire rope.

The Daniel Lyons’ bluff bow is the site’s most visually impressive feature. Before toppling to port, the bowsprit and jib boom dislodged from their location atop the stempost and split the bow in two along the stempost’s starboard side, coming to rest atop the keelson. The bowsprit lies beneath the jib boom and extends from the starboard hull to the jib boom’s fastening ring. The bowsprit continues beneath the starboard hull, which lays somewhat flattened over the stempost, bowsprit, and windlass. A tangle of wire rigging lies around the bowsprit, as well as a sail gaff, complete with jaws, that lies immediately to starboard of the jib boom.

The port hull side has collapsed outward. It is largely intact from the transom to the bow. The centerboard trunk remains upright and visually dominates the site. The trunk is mounted atop the keelson on the vessel’s centerline. The rudder lies off the wreck site’s starboard quarter, among a tangle of wire rigging.” For more information see “Wheat Chaff and Coal Dust,” by Keith N. Meverden, Tamara L. Thomsen and John O. Jensen, 2006, Wisconsin Historical Society.