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SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
Lake Superior, former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug, built in 1943. Used as a museum ship in Duluth, Minnesota from 1996 - 2007. Abandoned after a 2022 sinking. USCGC Bramble, a former museum ship in Port Huron, Michigan. Sold and brought to Alabama in 2018, scrapped in 2023 [15]
In this image taken from video provided by the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, a lifeboat is tethered to the Ironton seen in Lake Huron off Michigan's east coast in a June 2021 photo.
Served as a packet boat, transporting passengers and freight around Lake Michigan. Caught fire March 18, 1906 heading from Sheboygan to Milwaukee, and abandoned, with one man lost. Caught fire March 18, 1906 heading from Sheboygan to Milwaukee, and abandoned, with one man lost.
The wreck of Regina was discovered in 1986 in Lake Huron between Lexington and Port Sanilac, Michigan. [3] [11] The wreck is largely intact but is upside down and in about 77–80 feet (23–24 m) of water. She was discovered by Wayne Brusate, Colette Witherspoon, Garry Biniecki and John Severance.
SS Russia was an iron-hulled American Great Lakes package freighter that sank in a Lake Huron gale on April 30, 1909, near DeTour Village, Michigan, with all 22 of her crew and one passenger surviving. Russia was built in 1872 in Buffalo, New York, by the King Iron Works, with the Gibson & Craig shipyard as the subcontractor. She was built for ...
On June 7, 1906 the Grecian struck a rock near DeTour Village, Michigan in the St. Marys River and sank. She was eventually refloated and taken in tow of the freighter Sir Henry Bessemer, which would take her to Detroit, Michigan for repairs. On June 15, 1906 while off Thunder Bay Island the Grecian unexpectedly filled with water and sank.
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay, within the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It protects an estimated 116 historically significant shipwrecks ranging from nineteenth-century wooden side-wheeler paddle steamers to twentieth ...