Shipwrecks
There are two known shipwrecks located inside Portage Lake:
- The tug boat Lewis Wallace, which burned and sank in the small bay at the west end of Portage Lake between the East end of the North Channel pier and the present site of the Portage Lake Yacht Club on 22 September 1893. Classified as a wooden, propeller driven steam tug (Official number 16625), she had been built in 1865 by Barbage, in Grand Haven, Michigan and originally named Miranda. After a fire in 1879, she was rebuilt at Saginaw, Michigan and renamed Lewis Wallace. She had an overall length of 54 feet (16 m), a beam of 16 feet (4.9 m), and a draft of 7 feet (2.1 m).
- The steamer Music which burned and sank on the sank, a total loss, on bar south of North ( or "Andy's") Point near the middle of the Lake. She caught fire at the pier in Onekama and was cast adrift, burning like a torch as she drifted westward out into the lake 30 August 1899. Built as an excursion boat by McMillan in South Haven, Michigan in 1892 (Official number 92421), she was classified as a wooden, propeller-driven steam tug, and had an overall length of 93 feet, beam of 21 feet (6.4 m) and an 8-foot (2.4 m) draft.
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