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When first launched, the ship's wide cross-section and long midships hold was an unconventional design, but the design's relative advantages in moving cargo through the inland lakes spawned many imitators. The Hackett is recognized as the very first Great Lakes freighter, a vessel type that has dominated Great Lakes shipping for over 100 years.
Many of these ships were never found, so the exact number of shipwrecks in the Lakes is unknown; the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum estimates 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives lost, [1] while historian and mariner Mark Thompson has estimated that the total number of wrecks is likely more than 25,000. [2]
List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes; List of shipwrecks in the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary; List of shipwrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary; List of shipwrecks in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary; List of shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm; List of Great Lakes shipwrecks on the National ...
10 Great Lakes. 11 Guam. 12 Hawaii. 13 Indiana. 14 Kansas. ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the United States ...
By one estimate, there are 6,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, 550 in Lake Superior alone, including the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975 and is immortalized in a folk song by Gordon Lightfoot.
Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Politically, the Great Lakes and their region are divided between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. See also Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
More than 70 ships have plunged to the bottom of the Great Lakes during November, among them was the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell, which went down in 1966 and claimed all but one crew member.. Michigan ...
The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Now, an invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks deep in the depths ...