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The packet steamer Pulaski, bound for Baltimore, Maryland, departed Charleston, South Carolina on June 14, 1838, under Captain DuBois, with a crew of 37 and 131 passengers on board. [4] That night at about 11 p.m., when the ship was 30 miles (48 km) off the coast of North Carolina, the starboard boiler exploded, destroying the middle of the ship.
The wreck was discovered in 2021, but the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society spends time researching found vessels before going public with information about its discoveries.
The Arlington, a ship that sank in 1940, was found in about 600 feet of fresh water about 35 miles north of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. "The fact is no one will ever know the answer," the ...
After Europeans began to explore and settle the area, storms and other incidents took their toll on ships, and as of March 2024 Lake Michigan as a whole contained an estimated 780 shipwrecks, of which approximately 250 had been discovered. [7] The waters included in the sanctuary are some of the best-understood in Lake Michigan. [7]
The boiler from the John Evenson steam tug now lies on the bottom of Lake Michigan. The 54-foot steam tug sank on June 5, 1895, and was finally discovered by two Wisconsin maritime historians on ...
Speke was born on 4 May 1827 at Orleigh Court, [2] Buckland Brewer, near Bideford, North Devon. [3] In 1844 he was commissioned into the Bengal Army and posted to British India, where he served in the 46th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry under Sir Hugh Gough during the Punjab campaign and under Sir Colin Campbell during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Arlington left Port Arthur ...
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.