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The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, which worked on the discovery with researcher Dan Fountain, confirmed the find in a statement Monday.. Fountain spotted something at the bottom of the ...
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]
She is the second oldest shipwreck in Ohio waters (after the recently discovered schooner Lake Serpent), [153] and the oldest known wreck of a steamship in the Great Lakes. [154] 2: Dunkirk Schooner Site: Dunkirk Schooner Site: May 1, 2009 : About 20 miles off Dunkirk, New York
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum; National Geographic article, "Road Trip: Shipwreck Coast, Michigan" Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve; 130 years after it sank, well-preserved wreckage of ship found in Lake Superior; Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum; Graveyard Of The Great Lakes (1988), a YouTube video
According to Shipwreck World, Clow was taking the Muir from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago with a cargo of bulk salt on Sept. 30, 1893, when at 5 a.m. the ship was hit by a 50 mph gale in ...
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 ...
The pilot house of William Clay Ford is part of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle, Detroit. [13] The bulk freighter was built in 1952 and scrapped in 1987. The past warship, converted into a Great Lakes freighter, SS Joseph H Thompson ' s pilot house was removed when being converted to a barge.
The wreck of the Osborn was discovered 100 years after her sinking. The wreck was illegally salvaged in the 1980s. Many of Osborn's artifacts became the property of the State of Michigan after they were seized from Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The State allows the museum to display the artifacts as a loan.