Read full article: Wreck of ship that sank in 1940 found in Lake ... Michigan lighthouses have been shining a light on the Great Lakes for centuries. With more than 3,200 miles of shoreline ...
The ship sank about 35 miles north of the Keweenaw ... Fountain found the area and knew it could be a wreck, and reached out to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) for help.
“We can plot where all these missing ships are in the Great Lakes,” Baillod ... In the 1990s, Baillod was one of 10 researchers who began collecting shipwreck information for the Great Lakes. Of the ...
Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, also posed significant dangers ... The storm’s ferocity left about forty ships sunk or stranded across all of the lakes, except Lake Ontario.
RELATED: Sole survivor of 1966 Great Lakes shipwreck that claimed 28 lives dies of cancer First launched out of Bay City in 1906, the ship sailed the Great Lakes for 60 years, hauling iron ore and ...
On Nov. 23, 1912, the overloaded Rouse Simmons, carrying 5,000 Christmas trees, foundered in a fierce blizzard off Kewaunee, ...
according to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. “We’re holding our own, going along like an old shoe,” was the last transmission sent out by the ship’s captain. The Edmund Fitzgerald ...
About 6,000 ships have wrecked on the Great Lakes ... sites off the coast of Grand Traverse Bay near Traverse City. Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum — Whitefish Point Light Station in Paradise.