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The Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve is a 148-square-mile (380 km 2) state preserve in and around the Straits of Mackinac. The preserve is divided in two by the Mackinac Bridge . The waters of the preserve include the waters offshore from Mackinaw City and St. Ignace , as well as all or part of the shorelines of Bois Blanc Island ...
Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse. Most of the Straits have been set aside by the state of Michigan as the Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve, a riparian public space dedicated to those personnel who were lost aboard the boats and ships that sank in these dangerous shipping lanes. Lighthouses in the Straits of Mackinac include:
The wreck of Cedarville lies in the Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve in water around 110 feet (34 m) deep, although the highest point of the hull is around 35 feet (11 m) below the surface and the cabins of the ship are around 75 feet (23 m) underwater. [35] Expert divers are able to enter the ship, as most parts remain fairly undamaged. [2]
The schooner disappeared en route to Cleveland with a load of limestone. Both occupants fell overboard and drowned; their bodies washed ashore just west of Cleveland. The ship was discovered in 2016 and identified in 2019. She is the oldest-confirmed shipwreck in Lake Erie. Little Wissahickon: 10 July 1896 Sank off Rondeau Point
Michigan Underwater Preserves. Michigan Underwater Preserves or Michigan Bottomland Preserves are protected areas of the Great Lakes on Michigan's coast. The thirteen designated areas, comprising a surface area of over 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2), are considered to be "Underwater museums" and serve to protect concentrations of shipwrecks, unique geologic features and other submerged sites ...
Enbridge has proposed a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac, beneath the Great Lakes bottomlands, through which to run a new oil and gas pipeline to replace Line 5. Critics argue such a plan ...
SS Eber Ward was a package freighter that served ports on the Upper Great Lakes from her launching in 1888 until she sank in the Straits of Mackinac on April 20, 1909, with the loss of five lives. The sunken cargo ship is a feature of the present-day Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve. [1]
The ship was eastbound from Milwaukee to Buffalo. The reason for her sinking is unknown, but she departed November 27, late in the season, and was overloaded with grain. [ 1 ] There was no record of her passing through the Straits of Mackinac, so for years it was assumed she had foundered somewhere in Lake Michigan