Home (schooner)
Home was a two-masted schooner which sank in Lake Michigan off Centerville in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States, in 1858. In 2010 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. History. "Home" was built in 1843 by Redfield on the Black River in Ohio. The property of W. D. Winslow, Robert White, and Thomas Jones, of Chicago, Illinois, she was constructed to carry grain, lumber, and general merchandise between Lake Erie and the upper Great Lakes. Her captain, James Nugent, was an abolitionist who collaborated with the Underground Railroad, and many of the  merchants who shipped goods on "Home" also opposed slavery, making it likely that "Home" contributed in some way to the Underground Railroad, although she was never caught with fugitive slaves aboard. "Home" departed Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on October 16, 1858, bound for Chicago with a cargo of merchandise, wood, and cedar posts, and sank in Lake Michigan southeast of Manitowoc after a collision in dense fog and early-morning darkness with the schooner "William Fiske" at 4:00 a.m. on October 17, 1858. The collision stove in "Home"′s hull and toppled her masts. The undamaged "William Fiske" rescued her crew. Wreck. Several  newspapers gave an incorrect location for the collision, and "Home"′s wreck was not discovered until April 1981. It lies in of water about southeast of Manitowoc at . Added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 2010, the shipwreck site was included within the boundaries of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary when it was created in 2021. "Home" is the second-oldest shipwreck in Wisconsin's waters, preceded only by the 1833 schooner "Gallinipper", which sank in 1851. The wreck is upright and mostly intact, although the stern cabin is missing and the starboard bow has  damage from the collision with "William Fiske". "Home"′s foremast also is missing from the wreck: It was pulled to the surface in commercial fishing nets, and is on display at the Rogers Street Fishing Village in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.