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A freighter in Lake Superior hit something underwater on Saturday and started taking on water, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard Great Lakes district received reports about 6:53 a ...
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
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year.
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.
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.
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 ...
By seven feet (2.1 m), she was longer than the second largest ship on the Great Lakes and her engine had almost twice the power of engines installed in most lake freighters. [3] At 639 feet (195 m), she was the longest freighter (and the largest self-unloader) on the lakes for 22 years.
The Thomas Wilson was a whaleback freighter built in 1892 and used to haul bulk freight on the Great Lakes.The ship sank in Lake Superior just outside the harbor of Duluth, Minnesota, United States, on 7 June 1902, after a collision with the George Hadley.