St. AlbansSt. Albans is intact standing upright in 165 feet of water, 7 miles east of Milwaukee.
 | Pictures: | Pictures | | Other Names: | none | | Vessel Specifications: | 135x26x11, 435 t. | | Type of Vessel: | Wooden Steamer | | Depth to Deck: | 154 ft (46m) | | Depth to Bottom: | 165 ft (50m) | | How it Sunk: | A wooden steamer built in 1868 used to haul passengers and freight throughout the lower Great Lakes. She rammed a cake of ice, which filled the hole it had made in her hull. She rushed for shore, but as the ice melted, the vessel filled and sank. Bound Milwaukee for Ludington, she was a total loss of 35,000. She was a Northern Transportation Co. boat serving small Lake Michigan ports out of Grand Haven. | | Date of Loss: | 1881, Jan. 30 | | Place of Loss: | 8 mi NNE of Milwaukee | | Lives Loss: | none of 27 | | References: | Shipwreck File by Dave Swayze | |
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