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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]
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]
Nearly 200 shipwrecks are believed to rest within or nearby the boundaries of the sanctuary, which includes the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center in Alpena and some 4,300 square miles of ...
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, which worked on the discovery with researcher Dan Fountain, confirmed the find in a statement Monday.. Fountain spotted something at the bottom of the ...
The November 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably the most famous one of the Great Lakes, thanks to Gordon Lightfoot’s hit ballad.But a new discovery is putting another ship ...
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 2023 Ship State Description Long Shun Mongolia: The cargo ship foundered off the Matsu Islands, Taiwan. One of her five crew was rescued; the others were reported missing. [1] Michigan United States: The towing vessel flooded and sank at Milwaukee, Wisconsin after sitting idle since April 2022. [2]
SS Arlington was a Great Lakes steamship which sank after breaking apart on Lake Superior on May 1, 1940. The wreck was discovered in 2023. The wreck was discovered in 2023. Construction
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.