The wheel of the Trinidad, which sank off the coast of Wisconsin in Lake Michigan in 1881 (Tamara Thomsen / State Historical Society of Wisconsin)

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Built for cross-lake grain trade, the poorly maintained schooner met its watery end in 1881

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