The Gallinipper, a wooden two-masted schooner built in 1833 by Augustus Jones at Black River, Ohio, is the oldest commercial vessel found in Wisconsin waters of the Great Lakes, lying about 17 miles northeast of here upright and intact in 210 feet of water on the bottom of Lake Michigan. Commissioned by Michael Dousman, an agent of the American Fur Company at Mackinac Island, she was originally named the Nancy Dousman for Dousman’s daughter and carried furs from trading posts along Lake Michigan and Lake Superior to Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo, often returning westbound with passengers and provisions for Fort Michilimackinac. She later brought supplies to Dousman’s warehouse and store in the frontier village of Milwaukee. By 1846, she had been wrecked, sunk, raised, and rebuilt, her length increased by 26 feet, and she was renamed the Gallinipper, after which she worked in the booming Lake Michigan lumber trade. On July 5, 1851, she sailed out of Milwaukee harbor to pick up lumber in Bay de Noque near Escanaba, Michigan, but a sudden squall caught her between Sheboygan and Manitowoc, capsizing the vessel and forcing abandonment. All seven crew members and two passengers were rescued by the nearby schooner Cleopatra.