The wooden schooner Barbarian was built in 1855 at Oswego, New York. Her home port was Chicago, Illinois. She often carried lumber on lower Lake Michigan: Chicago and Milwaukee.
October 25, 1898. The schooner Barbarian, laden with a cargo of railroad ties, became waterlogged and was driven ashore onto the breakwater at Milwaukee approximately 1 mile northeast of the harbor entrance. The vessel subsequently was pounded to pieces.