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The Stannard Rock Reef is located off Keweenaw Peninsula about 24 miles (39 km) south of Manitou Island and 44 miles (71 km) north of Marquette, Michigan. [1] [10] In 1835, Captain Charles C. Stannard of the vessel John Jacob Astor first discovered this underwater mountain that extends for 0.25 miles (0.40 km) with depths as shallow as 4 feet (1.2 m) and averaging 16 feet (4.9 m).
Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast: Maritime Accidents from Whitefish Point to Grand Marais, Michigan. Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios. ISBN 0-932212-43-3. Stonehouse, Frederick (1973). The Great Wrecks of the Great Lakes: A directory of the shipwrecks of Lake Superior. Hancock, Michigan: The Book Concern, Printer. LCCN 73-75623.
The estate of Granot Loma sits on 5,180 acres (2,100 ha) of woodland located along the Lake Superior shore. The lodge is an enormous, L-shaped structure built of logs over a steel frame and with a slate roof. The lodge includes a 60-foot (18 m) long greatroom and 23 or 26 bedrooms, 13 baths, and 26 stone fireplaces.
Mascot left Portland on February 4, 1905 transporting cattle for the Lewis and Lake rivers, became the first boat to make that trip for about 10 days. [51] Ice caused trouble downriver on the Columbia to St. Helens, although it had been somewhat broken up by the passage of ships through the river. [ 51 ]
Tashmoo on Lake St Claire, 1922. After a race between the City of Chicago and the City of Milwaukee in September 1900, a Chicago–newspaper boasted that the winner (the City of Chicago) was the "fastest on the lakes". [5] A paper in Detroit, Michigan subsequently listed nine vessels that could have easily beaten the City of Chicago.
The shipping channels pass on opposite sides of Neebish Island in the St Marys River. The waterway allows passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the inland port of Duluth on Lake Superior, a distance of 2,340 miles (3,770 km) and to Chicago, on Lake Michigan, at 2,250 miles (3,620 km). [3]
Toggle Lake Michigan subsection. 2.1 Michigan. 2.2 Indiana. 2.3 Illinois. ... Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, and Lake Superior, as well as the smaller Lake St. Clair. ...
The Independence was a propeller-driven steamboat that was the first steam-driven vessel to run on Lake Superior in October 1845, initiating the era of steam navigation on that lake. During her career, she saw service shipping passengers and supplies to the mining settlements along the south shores of the lake and often returning with copper ...