Helvetia

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The 204 ft Helvetia was built as a three-masted schooner in 1873 in New York and later in its career converted to a schooner barge. Although it was towed behind different steamers since the 1890’s her rigging was not documented as changed to a barge until 1919. The Helvetia spent the 1890’s on the ocean but returned to the Great Lakes in 1902 where she ran to Chicago in the lumber trade then moved to run between Sheboygan and Two Rivers hauling coal. In 1921as a barge she was towed ten miles northeast of Sheboygan, set on fire, and scuttled. Today the Helvetia is a rarely visited technical dive site in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The model was created from 1,974 30-megapixel images shot by Andrew Goodman in the 2025 season.