LIGHT VESSEL No. 57 (Shipwreck)

Address Restricted, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. County/parish: Milwaukee.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 23, 1991. NRIS 91001823.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Grays Reef Lightship
  • Mi402

From Wikipedia:

United States lightship LV-57

LV-57 was an American lightship that was built in 1891 and served on the Great Lakes (Lake Michigan), west of the Straits of Mackinac (the reef is now the site of the Grays Reef Light), from her construction to her retirement in 1924. She was partly dismantled, used as a clubhouse, and wrecked by a storm after 1928. On December 16, 1996 the remains of LV-57 were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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