The F.J. King, a Ship Lost in 1886, Is Found in Lake Michigan NYT | Top Stories Mark Walker 19 September 2025 at 07:03 Long rumored to be on the floor of the lake but never seen, the schooner had eluded divers and taunted storytellers for generations. It was miles off the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin. © Wisconsin Historical Society, via Associated PressAfter more than a century, searchers have found the wreckage of a ship lost during a ferocious storm off the Wisconsin coastline.