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A lake freighter that sank in a collision with Dalwarnic off Somerset. Noronic Canada: 17 September 1949 A Great Lakes cruise ship that burned and sank at Toronto dock, with over 100 passengers killed. North Star: 26 November 1886 The schooner sank with a load of coal off Stony Island. Ocean Wave: 1853 Paddlewheeler. Old Steamer
Map of the shipwrecks in the Great Storm of 1913. This is a list of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes of North America that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Steel bulk freighter 1909 1913 175 feet (53 m) On November 11, 1913 the Isaac M. Scott was bound from Cleveland, Ohio for Milwaukee, Wisconsin with a cargo of coal, when she encountered the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. When she was sailing off Thunder Bay Island, the Scott capsized and sank with the loss of all her crew. [64] [65] [66
SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. Twenty-three were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan, United States.
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay, within the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It protects an estimated 116 historically significant shipwrecks ranging from nineteenth-century wooden side-wheeler paddle steamers to twentieth ...
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 ...
SS Senator was a steel-hulled Great Lakes freighter that sank on Lake Michigan with the loss of nine lives and 268 Nash automobiles, [2] on Halloween of 1929 after she was rammed in heavy fog by the bulk carrier Marquette. [3] She lies in 450 feet (140 m) of water 16 miles northeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin.
The freighter, longer than two football fields and loaded with about 20,000 metric tons of rock salt, was christened in 2022 and was the first large bulk carrier built on the Great Lakes since 1981.