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Photograph of Robert C. Pringle
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

ROBERT C. PRINGLE (tug) Shipwreck

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

“Pringle, originally named Chequamegon, was a wooden-hulled American tugboat. She sank without loss of life on Lake Michigan, near Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on June 19, 1922, after striking an obstruction, possibly floating driftwood.”

Wikipedia article Robert C. Pringle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Sheboygan County · listed in 2020 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 8 mi. SE of the Sheboygan harbor entrance in L. Michigan, Wilson
  • When was it listed? December 2020
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
  • National Register reference number. 100005902 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
HETTY TAYLOR (shipwreck)5.0 miles2005
SELAH CHAMBERLAIN (bulk carrier) Shipwreck7.4 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005902 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheboygan CountyAll 60 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.