Address Restricted, Port Wing, Wisconsin. County/parish: Bayfield.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 18, 2019. NRIS 100004627.
Part of Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS (NRIS 64500716).
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Thomas Friant was a wooden-hulled ferry (later fish tug) that served on the Great Lakes from her construction in 1884 to her sinking in 1924. In January 1924, while gillnetting out of Two Harbors, Minnesota in Lake Superior, she was holed by ice, and sank with no fatalities. In 2004 her wreck was discovered in over 300 feet (91 m) of water in pristine condition. The wreck of Thomas Friant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
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