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Byron shipwreck
The ''Byron'' was a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Oostburg, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.〔 (Photo )〕
==History==
The commercial vessel ''Byron'', a small undocumented 36-foot schooner, was built and sailed under the command of Captain William Burmeister of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. In 1867 she was run down and sunk by the ''Canton'', another schooner. At the time of the loss, the ''Byron'' was valued at about $1000, and the cargo at $400.
The ''Byron'' now lies in 135 feet of water 12 miles southeast of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The wreckage was discovered by commercial fisherman Danny Burnette in 1977 when a trawl net brought up an anchor. Divers soon located the wreck site, much of the ''Byrons cargo and equipment was recovered by recreational divers over the next few years. Today, no cargo or artifacts remain; the ''Byron'' is completely covered with a layer of zebra and quaggo mussels and the hull is very fragile.〔
The ''Byron'' is significant as a rare example of its type of commercial vessel, once common to Wisconsin's transportation infrastructure and a vital part of its economy in the time before road and rail networks. There is no surviving historical record of the construction techniques of lakeshoring schooners, making the ''Byron'' site a potential source of additional information on this type of 19th century vessel.〔
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