The Kyle Spangler was a wooden schooner; its 1860 wreck site in Lake Huron was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

[3] In 1856, Spangler commissioned William Jones, a shipbuilder from Black River Ohio (now Lorain), to construct a schooner.

In 1857, she spring a leak in Lake Michigan, and was run aground just south of Sleeping Bear Bay before she sank.

[3] The Kyle Spangler lies upright in 185 feet (56 meters) of water, and much of the wreck is undamaged save the bow.

[5] The cold, fresh water of Lake Huron has kept the wreck well preserved, and the ship looks much as she did during the 1850s, with both masts (including crosstrees) intact and upright.