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22 May 1913. Foundered on Lake Huron, in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The James C. Carruthers was a 550-foot-long (170 m) Canadian freighter that foundered in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. 44°48′04″N82°23′49″W / 44.801°N 82.397°W / 44.801; -82.397 (SS James Carruthers) SS Henry B. Smith. 1906. 10 November 1913.
February 8, 2018(#100001835) L. Huron 44°58′07″N83°12′03″W / 44.968483°N 83.200950°W / 44.968483; -83.200950 (Grecian Shipwreck Site) Alpena. The Grecian was built in 1891 by the Globe Iron Works in Cleveland, Ohio. She was one of the first propeller-driven steel lakers that hauled iron and coal on the Great Lakes.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles (18 km) north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The light station property was transferred to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS), the Michigan Audubon Society (MAS), and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1996.
Sign, Graveyard of the Great Lakes, Whitefish Point. The Graveyard of the Great Lakes comprises the southern shore of Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Michigan, and Whitefish Point, though Grand Island has been mentioned as a western terminus. [1] More ships have wrecked in this area than any other part of Lake Superior. [2][3][4]
Carl D. Bradley ' s estimated value at the time her loss was $8 million, making her the most costly shipwreck in Great Lakes history. [63] U.S. Steel initially offered $660,000 as a settlement. Family members of the lost crewmen felt that U.S. Steel used the USCG findings to avoid responsibility for the loss of Carl D. Bradley.
Ontario. (1780) HMS Ontario was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on 31 October 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. [2] She was a 22-gun snow, and, at 80 feet (24 m) in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time. [2] The shipwreck was discovered in 2008.
It became the thirteenth overall and first on the Great Lakes. Original boundaries followed that of Alpena County to 83 degrees west longitude totaling 448 square miles (1,160 km 2). In 2014 it was expanded to 4,300 square miles (11,000 km 2). [2] The marine sanctuary contains many shipwrecks, such as the hull of package freighter SS Pewabic.
The preserve has good visibility and offers deep water diving on a variety of shipwrecks. The preserve is one of the last places in the Great Lakes to observe shipwrecks without zebra mussel encrustation. [13] Dry suits are recommended due to cold temperatures and unprotected coves or bays. Most of the dive sites are deep and divers must be ...