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For the next who weeks, the Hopkins floated about Lake Superior until October 17, 1911, when she was sighted by the freighter William E. Corey off Michigan Island. [104] Algonquin: Wooden schooner 1839 1874 After being laid up in 1874, she gradually filled with water and sank near Superior, Wisconsin. [105] Alice Craig: Wooden schooner 1857 1887
Lake Serpent: 1829 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
The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1] This list includes shipwrecks that are located in the waters of Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent ...
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point includes a variety of displays, from the famous lighthouse to a 1940s-era lifeboat to the restored lighthouse keeper’s quarters to the 200 ...
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.
More ships have wrecked in this area than any other part of Lake Superior. [2] [3] [4] Over 200 wrecks are in the area of Whitefish Point of the 550 wrecks in Lake Superior. For a distance west of Whitefish Bay, there are no natural harbors in which ships can "ride out" storms. [5]
The List of shipwrecks of Isle Royale includes more than 25 ships that have been sunk near Isle Royale in Lake Superior (North America). Isle Royale has been an obstacle to shipping on Lake Superior since the earliest days. Upon its reefs, more than 25 major wrecks have occurred. Some were refloated, but most never left.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) ... Pages in category "Shipwrecks of Lake Superior"