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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.
Detroit: Wooden steamer 1859 1872 10 feet (3.0 m) On September 29, 1872 the Detroit was driven ashore on the coast of Lake Huron near Greenbush, Michigan, with a cargo of lumber. A few weeks later during salvage operations, one of the chains used to lift the Detroit cut her in half, causing her to sink. [32] [33
Lake Superior, former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug, built in 1943. Used as a museum ship in Duluth, Minnesota from 1996 - 2007. Abandoned after a 2022 sinking. USCGC Bramble, a former museum ship in Port Huron, Michigan. Sold and brought to Alabama in 2018, scrapped in 2023 [15]
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly ...
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 ...
A 56-year-old man’s remains have been found in Michigan — 17 years after his pilot fiancée’s remains were located in 2007 Missing Plane and Human Remains Found in Lake Huron 17 Years After ...
SS Russia was an iron-hulled American Great Lakes package freighter that sank in a Lake Huron gale on April 30, 1909, near DeTour Village, Michigan, with all 22 of her crew and one passenger surviving. Russia was built in 1872 in Buffalo, New York, by the King Iron Works, with the Gibson & Craig shipyard as the subcontractor. She was built for ...
Just below the surface of a Michigan lake lies a shipwreck with a sordid past: a prohibition-era party boat linked to an infamous gangster. The massive barge, known as the Keuka, lurks in Lake ...