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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]
After various sales and rebuilds, by the time it was scuttled in 1940, it was one of the last wooden commercial ships on the Great Lakes. [142] 62: Silver Lake (scow-schooner) Shipwreck: Silver Lake (scow-schooner) Shipwreck: March 27, 2013 : 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Sheboygan in Lake Michigan
Sign, Graveyard of the Great Lakes, Whitefish Point. The Graveyard of the Great Lakes comprises the southern shore of Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Michigan, and Whitefish Point, though Grand Island has been mentioned as a western terminus. [1] More ships have wrecked in this area than any other part of Lake Superior. [2] [3] [4]
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
SS Chief Wawatam: A historic icebreaker and the last hand-fired coal steamer on the Great Lakes, Chief Wawatam was cut down to a barge and finally scrapped by its owner (Purvis Marine of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario). Three-masted schooner J.T. Wing: Last commercial sailing ship on the Great Lakes, she was used briefly in the lumber trade. She ...
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 Arlington was a Great Lakes steamship which sank after breaking apart on Lake Superior on May 1, 1940. The wreck was discovered in 2023. The wreck was discovered in 2023. Construction