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Lake freighter. 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″N 82°23′49″W / 44.801°N 82.397°W / 44.801; -82.397 (SS James Carruthers) SS Henry B. Smith. 1906.
She sank in 1850 about eight miles north of Vermilion, Ohio after her boilers exploded. She is the second oldest shipwreck in Ohio waters (after the recently discovered schooner Lake Serpent), [153] and the oldest known wreck of a steamship in the Great Lakes. [154] 2. Dunkirk Schooner Site.
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a national marine sanctuary [2] administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce; NOAA co-manages the sanctuary jointly with the State of Wisconsin. It is located in Lake Michigan along the coast of Wisconsin.
The Muir sustained occasional damages over its 21 years of duty, with incidents listed on Wisconsin Shipwrecks caused by weather and towing issues that appear typical for wooden Great Lakes cargo ...
The search for shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Michigan yielded something scientists weren’t quite expecting: massive craters. In 2022, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 244-foot SS Arlington was lying under 650 feet of water around 35 miles north of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula for 84 years and was only found after a dogged shipwreck hunter kept up the ...