The wooden three-masted schooner Daniel Lyons, built in 1873 by George Goble in Oswego, New York, carried grain to ports around the Great Lakes during the 1870s. Loaded with wheat and bound for Buffalo, New York, she left Chicago at one A.M. on October 17, 1878, and moved easily up the Wisconsin coastline in a light fall breeze until she was offshore from Clay Banks in Door County. About four A.M., the lights of the Kate Gillett, heavily laden with fence posts and bound for Chicago, appeared in the darkness. Although the vessels tried to avoid each other, the Kate Gillett rammed the starboard side of the Daniel Lyons and pierced her hull. The two ships stayed locked together long enough for the captain and crew of the Daniel Lyons to jump aboard the Gillett, and when they separated, the Daniel Lyons quickly sank in the early morning of October 18, 1878. About eight miles northeast of here, the wreck now rests 110 feet beneath Lake Michigan, where the collapsed hull lies amid scattered masts, gaffs, booms, wire rope, and other rigging, with deck winches and a windlass still visible.