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When first launched, the ship's wide cross-section and long midships hold was an unconventional design, but the design's relative advantages in moving cargo through the inland lakes spawned many imitators. The Hackett is recognized as the very first Great Lakes freighter, a vessel type that has dominated Great Lakes shipping for over 100 years.
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]
30 feet (9.1 m) Sank in 1999 near Beaver Bay, Minnesota by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society as an easy dive site for divers. [25] [26: Lafayette: Steel bulk freighter 1900 1905 30 feet (9.1 m)
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.
The Great Lakes ore carrier Daniel J. Morrell went to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1966, claiming more than two dozen lives. ... The ship sank in 145 feet of water, 20 miles northeast of Harbor ...
Location: Four miles off Two Harbors, Minnesota: Nearest city: Two Harbors, Minnesota: Coordinates: 2]: Built: 1895: Architect: Craig Shipbuilding Company: Architectural style: shipwreck site: MPS: Minnesota's Lake Superior Shipwrecks MPS: NRHP reference No.: 100002773 [1]: Added to NRHP: August 9, 2018: The Harriet B. was a wooden-hulled barge that served on the Great Lakes of North America ...
Video footage shows the Ironton sitting upright on the lake bottom, hundreds of feet down — “remarkably preserved” by the cold, fresh water like many other Great Lakes shipwrecks, Gray said ...
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 ...