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Disappeared on Lake Superior on 1 December 1908. Edmund Fitzgerald United States: 10 November 1975 Sunk in a storm on Lake Superior, Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the largest ships to have sunk in the Great Lakes. The exact cause of the disaster has never been made clear, and has been the subject of much discussion.
On July 19, 1881 the City of Winnipeg was in Duluth, Minnesota unloading her cargo of whisky and horses when a fire was discovered in wood pocket near her engine room. She eventually burned to the waterline with the loss of 4 lives. In July 1898 she was raised, and scuttled somewhere off Park Point in Lake Superior. [52] Comet: Wooden tug 1881 1897
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 Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
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.
This image provided by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the wreck of the bulk carrier Arlington, a merchant ship loaded with wheat that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on ...
The recent discovery of wreckage more than 600 feet deep in Lake Superior solves one mystery of the SS Arlington, a 244-foot bulk carrier that sank in 1940. But another remains.
As the storm continued to rage, the ship came apart, eventually killing 46 people. The wreck of the Algoma was the worst loss of life in the history of Lake Superior shipping. [5] 2: Amboy and George Spencer Shipwreck Sites: Amboy and George Spencer Shipwreck Sites: April 14, 1994 : Lake Superior shore about a mile southwest of Sugar Loaf Cove [6