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Map of the shipwrecks in the Great Storm of 1913. This is a list of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes of North America that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Many of these ships were never found, so the exact number of shipwrecks in the Lakes is unknown; the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum estimates 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives lost, [1] while historian and mariner Mark Thompson has estimated that the total number of wrecks is likely more than 25,000. [2]
Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Politically, the Great Lakes and their region are divided between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. See also Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
10 Great Lakes. 11 Guam. 12 Hawaii. 13 Indiana. 14 Kansas. ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the United States ...
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.
List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes; List of shipwrecks in the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary; List of shipwrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary; List of shipwrecks in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary; List of shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm; List of Great Lakes shipwrecks on the National ...
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 ...
More than 70 ships have plunged to the bottom of the Great Lakes during November, among them was the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell, which went down in 1966 and claimed all but one crew member.. Michigan ...