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The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
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.
Between 1875 and 1926, she was found capsized twice in Lake Michigan, with no signs of her crews. In 1875, a car ferry crossing the lake discovered the schooner floating upside down. The ten-man crew who departed with the boat were never found. The ship was then turned over and returned to her port in Milwaukee, where she remained in service. [16]
In 2022, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration surveyed Lake Michigan with sonar inside the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary, an area known as the ...
Ship Year Possible or Last Known Location SS: Baychimo: 1969: Ghost ship last sighted in 1969 in Beaufort Sea off Alaska. [10] SS: Bannockburn: 1902: Lost on Lake Superior 21 November 1902 SS: Chicora: 1895: Lake freighter that sank on 21 January 1895 in Lake Michigan. [11] SS: D.M. Clemson: 1908: Lake freighter vanished in a violent Lake ...
A Century-Old Mystery Surfaces From Lake Superior; Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum; National Geographic article, "Road Trip: Shipwreck Coast, Michigan" Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve; 130 years after it sank, well-preserved wreckage of ship found in Lake Superior; Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum; Graveyard Of The Great Lakes (1988), a YouTube video
Bay City: Wooden schooner 1857 1902 11 feet (3.4 m) On November 29, 1902 the Bay City was driven against a pier in Alpena, Michigan and abandoned. [12] [13: Not listed Benjamin Franklin: Wooden paddle steamer 1842 1850 55 feet (17 m)
The wreck is one of two that have emerged from sands off Daytona Beach since December, officials said. The other was examined by the museum and found to be “an 1800s cargo ship,” officials said.