Service History
The wooden two masted scow-schooner
Evergreen was built in 1868 in Holland, Michigan.
Last Document Of Enrollment Surrendered: Milwaukee: 4/23/1880: "Total Loss".
Note: A similar scow-schooner with the same name,
Evergreen, was built four years earlier at Port Huron, Michigan. Official registry number 8252.
Final Voyage
April 16,1880. The scow-schooner
Evergreen, bound from Muskegon, Michigan, to Racine, Wisconsin, with a load of wood slabs and a crew of four men, went onto the beach a mile south of the United States Life-Saving Service Eleventh District's Station 15 (between Milwaukee's south pier and the Bay View rolling mill docks) while attempting to enter the harbor at Milwaukee. The crew managed to escaped to the beach with the help of bystanders. The following day the life saving crew arrived at the scene with the surf-boat in tow of the tug
Welcome and found the
Evergreen going to pieces. They managed to salvage the sails, rigging, and gear and threw the deck load overboard. The vessel soon went to pieces and became a total loss.
4/19/1880 "The scow
Evergreen, beached below the harbor on Friday, has since become a complete wreck. One of her sides adorns the shore, the other lies alongside the craft, and nothing remains in position except the bow and stern." Milwaukee Sentinel 4/19/1880