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Lake Michigan Wreck Dive - SS Wisconsin, Waukegan, IL (north of Chicago), summer 2012 The wreck site is a popular location for historians, archaeologists and divers. It lies in 90 to 130 feet (27 to 40 m) of water, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south-southeast of Kenosha .
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
[4] [11] An 81-day public comment period and a series of four meetings in the Wisconsin towns of Algoma, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Port Washington during the week of March 13, 2017, followed which led NOAA to alter the sanctuary's boundaries, reducing its area to 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), including 36 known historic shipwrecks, and to ...
A ship missing since the late 1800s has been discovered in Lake Michigan, the Wisconsin Historical Society said Friday. Long-lost shipwreck from 1880s discovered in Lake Michigan, says historical ...
The Peoria, which was declared a loss in 1880 and again in 1901, is the fourth shipwreck in Door County waters this year to join the historic register. Great Lakes cargo ship that wrecked off ...
Christina Nilsson was a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, on October 23, 1884. In 2003, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places . [ 1 ]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1880 Ship State Description Alpha Norway: The barque was lost at sea between 30 January and 12 March. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Aarhus, Denmark. [1] Beatrice United Kingdom: The schooner sank in St George's Bay, Newfoundland Colony. Her crew ...
The ship was the Margaret A. Muir, a 130-foot-long, three-masted schooner built in Manitowoc that carried mainly grain and other cargoes throughout the Great Lakes until it sank in Lake Michigan a ...