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SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
Queenstown is on the northern shore of the lake close to the eastern end of its middle section. It has a seiche period of 26.7 minutes which, in Queenstown Bay, causes the water level to rise and fall some 200 millimetres (8 in). [3] Lake Wakatipu is known for its scenery and is surrounded by mountains.
The S.S. Wakatipu sinks the Laira at Dunedin wharf, 2 April 1898 Dry plate glass negative; Reference No. 1/1-002197-G; De Maus Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand; Find out more about this image from the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Lake Serpent: 1829 The schooner disappeared en route to Cleveland with a load of limestone. Both occupants fell overboard and drowned; their bodies washed ashore just west of Cleveland. The ship was discovered in 2016 and identified in 2019. She is the oldest-confirmed shipwreck in Lake Erie. Little Wissahickon United States: 10 July 1896
Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Arlington left Port Arthur ...
Ship Ship type Build date Sunk date Depth Notes Coordinates Image A.C. Adams: Wooden tug 1881 1923 118 feet (36 m) Abandoned in circa 1923 near Duluth, Minnesota. Wreck located in 1990. [4] [5: Alice Vivian: Wooden dredge 1898 1975 Unknown
The ship struck the rocks near the shore of Coronation Island and sunk, killing approximately 110 of 138 people aboard. 110 1940 Italy: Orazio – On 21 January the passenger liner caught fire and burned 35 miles off Toulon, France. 48 of the 423 passengers and 60 of the 210 crew died in the fire. 108 1946 Soviet Union
The ship was wrecked near the Burin Peninsula, with some loss of life. P.L.M. 27 United Kingdom: 26 June 1941 An iron-ore carrier that was torpedoed by U-123 off Bell Island. USS Pollux United States Navy: 18 February 1942 A supply ship that sank along with USS Truxtun in a storm.