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PILOT ISLAND
 
Introduction

 
   
The infamous Death's Door passage piles three schooners into a jumbled heap of timbers
           
 
Launched:
Wrecked:
Cause:
A.P. Nichols
(Schooner)
1861
1892
storm
Forest
(Schooner)
1857
1891
storm
J.E. Gilmore
(Schooner)
1867
1892
storm
 

Location: Near the cement dock on Pilot Island in Door County, Wisconsin.
               
Depth: 15 to 40 feet
 
These wrecks' locations are marked with a mooring buoy.
 
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
 
 

 
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