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Margaret A. Muir was an American schooner that sank in a storm on Lake Michigan, United States, on September 30, 1893. [1] Its wreckage was discovered in 50 ft (15 m) of water off Algoma, Wisconsin , on May 12, 2024.
Marine archaeologists have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s. The Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association announced this month that its ...
The legacy of the schooner lives on in the area, with frequent ghost sightings and tourist attractions whereby its final route is traced. [2] [3] It was known as The Christmas Tree Ship and was one of many schooners to transport Christmas trees across the lake. However, with railroads, highways, and tree farms proving much more economical, the ...
A schooner that sank in a gale off the coast of Centerville. General Winfield Scott United States: 7 August 1871 A schooner that ran aground between Hog and Washington islands in Wisconsin. George W. Morley: 5 December 1897 A wooden Great Lakes bulk freighter that caught fire off the shore of Evanston, Illinois. [19
Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew’s possessions in its final resting spot ...
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The Rosabelle was a two-masted schooner used to transport materials to the House of David in Benton Harbor. [15] Between 1875 and 1926, she was found capsized twice in Lake Michigan, with no signs of her crews. In 1875, a car ferry crossing the lake discovered the schooner floating upside down. The ten-man crew who departed with the boat were ...
Wrecks of three wooden ships commingled on the reef SW of the island: the 115-foot scow-schooner Forest built in 1857 and wrecked by a storm in October of 1891, the 147-foot schooner A.P. Nichols built in 1861 and wrecked by a storm in October of 1892, and the 138-foot canaller-schooner J.E. Gilmore, built in 1867 and wrecked by another storm ...