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Lost on Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Its wreck was discovered in July 2015. [13] Ironton: 26 September 1894 A schooner that sank in a collision with the wooden freighter Ohio. Isaac M. Scott United States: 9 November 1913 A lake freighter that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
A World War II-era steamship that sank along with its captain in a strong storm in 1940 has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior after a 10-year search.
When first launched, the ship's wide cross-section and long midships hold was an unconventional design, but the design's relative advantages in moving cargo through the inland lakes spawned many imitators. The Hackett is recognized as the very first Great Lakes freighter, a vessel type that has dominated Great Lakes shipping for over 100 years.
A storm described in the book: Lore of the Lakes, as "The most disastrous that has ever swept our Great Lakes, both from loss of life and property this unprecedented." The storm of heavy snow, bitter cold winds and frightening high waves took the lives of an estimated 235 mariners, with Plymouth being the only ship lost on Lake Michigan. [1]
According to Shipwreck World, Clow was taking the Muir from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago with a cargo of bulk salt on Sept. 30, 1893, when at 5 a.m. the ship was hit by a 50 mph gale in ...
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.
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.
The 156-year-old shipwreck wasn't found until last July and is significant because it's remarkably intact, unlike most other Great Lakes wrecks.