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Alvin Clark was a schooner that sailed the Great Lakes for almost two decades. Constructed in 1846 or 1847, it sank during a storm in Green Bay in 1864. It was salvaged in 1969 and moored in Menominee, Michigan, at the Mystery Ship Seaport, located in the Menominee River at the foot of Sixth Avenue.
Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle.
The search for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan yielded something scientists weren’t quite expecting: massive craters.. In 2022, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Between 1875 and 1926, she was found capsized twice in Lake Michigan, with no signs of her crews. In 1875, a car ferry crossing the lake discovered the schooner floating upside down. The ten-man crew who departed with the boat were never found. The ship was then turned over and returned to her port in Milwaukee, where she remained in service. [16]
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.
A note was found stuck to a cabin widow which read: “Be back by 7-10.” Two cars used by the family sat parked outside gathering dust. An overwhelming stench pervaded the area, and neighbors ...
An abandoned concrete barge has been sitting off the coast of DuPont for more than 60 years. If you time it right, at low tide you can follow a long sandbar littered with barnacled logs and metal ...
His car was found abandoned on that date at the Aust service area adjacent to the Severn Bridge, which is a location notorious for suicides. Edwards had a history of self injury, and had received treatment for alcoholism, anorexia nervosa, and depression in the years leading up to his disappearance. He was declared dead in November 2008. [64 ...