SS Joys
{{Short description|Steamboat that sank in Lake Michigan}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| image = Joys.png
| caption = The steam barge Joys underway
| location = Lake Michigan off the coast of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
| locmapin = Wisconsin
| coordinates = {{coord|44|51|4|N|87|23|21|W|display=inline,title}}
| refnum = 07001218
| added = November 21, 2007
}}
The SS Joys was a steamboat that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States. In 2007, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20071130.HTM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170526204356/https://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20071130.HTM |archive-date=2017-05-26 |title=Weekly List of Actions Taken On Properties|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2012-02-11}} (Archived May 26, 2017)
History
The Joys was built in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1884.{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=43400|title=Steam Barge Joys|publisher=Historical Marker Database.org|accessdate=2012-02-11}} She would go on to haul cargo through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal from Menominee, Michigan to the ports of Milwaukee, Chicago, Illinois, Manistee, Michigan and Michigan City, Indiana.
On December 23, 1898, the Joys was at anchor in the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. At about 1:00 a.m., the captain saw flames from the wheelhouse and sounded the alarm. The crew was able to escape, but in the ensuing chaos the ship was carried in the current toward the canal office and government warehouse. Eventually, efforts from those on land were successful in towing the vessel away from land, where it then burned to the waterline and sank.
References
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{{NRHP Lake Michigan shipwrecks of Wisconsin|state=collapsed}}
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Category:Ships built in Milwaukee
Category:Maritime incidents in 1898
Category:Ships sunk with no fatalities
Category:Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan
Category:Shipwrecks of the Wisconsin coast
Category:Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Door County, Wisconsin