The Northerner sank in 1868 and has been resting upright on the lakebed of Lake Michigan off the coast of Wisconsin ever since. Hibbard Inshore / NOAA On November 28, 1868, an American schooner called ...
Winter storms on the Great Lakes can temporarily lower water levels, revealing shipwrecks and other submerged features. Strong, sustained winds during colder months push water from one end of a lake ...
Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Remembered ...
TOLEDO, Ohio — Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping ...
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Why Are There So Many Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes?
Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for generations, just waiting to be revealed. Once someone stumbles upon one of ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The 144-year-old shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn’t used for long voyages on the Great Lakes has been found in deep water off Lake Ontario’s New York shore, ...
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