Doty The wooden three masted bulk freighter L. Doty was built by F. It sank in while towing the schooner barge Olive Jeanette. The S. Eastland While the tragedy occurred on the Chicago River, the S.
Eastland, known as the "Speed Queen of the Great Lakes," was one of the largest Great Lakes-related disasters with people losing their lives. As they neared the Straits of Mackinac, the fog thickened. Due to a lack of communication, the Norwegian vessel Topdalsfjord collided with the Cedarville on her port side cutting a deep gash in her side between the seventh and eight hatch.
Shipwreck World: Lake Erie map. Lake Erie Shipwrecks. The ship never made it back. Divers from both Canada and the United States have claimed to have found the wreck. Shipwreck World: Lake Ontario Wreck list.
Only around 30 people were ultimately able to swim to shore. The remains of the ship, still burning, were eventually towed back to land. The Goliath , carrying a flammable cargo of shingles, lumber, and hay, was also loaded with about kegs of blasting powder for its journey from Detroit to Lake Superior in September A fire started as it neared Saginaw Bay in Michigan, likely caused by sparks from the smokestack.
The inferno quickly spread through the combustible cargo as the crew frantically tried to extinguish it. About five miles from shore, the fire reached the hold containing the powder kegs. A massive explosion ensued , which was seen and felt for miles. Only the ship's cook survived. Figuring the ship was doomed, he had lowered a small boat and fled, escaping just before the powder exploded. In September , a group of Confederates, led by a spy, hijacked two passenger steamers, the Philo Parsons and the Island Queen.
They planned to capture the SS Michigan , which was guarding the prison island. The spy—Major C. Cole—was known in the area as a wealthy merchant, and was invited aboard the Michigan. He planned to drug the wine that the officers would have with their dinner.
But his plot was discovered. They were within sight of land when Union forces sank their ship. The Sunbeam became caught in a storm while carrying 35 people across Lake Superior in August The weather overpowered the ship, which wasn't able to keep its bow into the wind.
After riding from trough to peak in the waves, the Sunbeam eventually rolled over onto its side and later sank. Many of the passengers and crew crowded into overloaded lifeboats. With no room left, one of the sailors gave up his spot to a woman.
He jumped into the water and tied himself to some floating wreckage , where he watched helplessly as the lifeboats tipped over, spilling their passengers into the lake. The sailor floated for nearly 18 hours until the waves washed him onto a ledge within some shoreline cliffs. Some areas contain high concentrations of wrecks, these include Lake Superior's 'Shipwreck Coast', which the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum describes as a 'treacherous stretch of shoreline with no safe harbor between Munising, Michigan, and Whitefish Point'.
The famous Edmund Fitzgerald lies just 15 miles to the northwest of Whitefish Point, it adds. Fathom Five National Marine Park in the Canadian side of Lake Huron, meanwhile, contains over 20 historical wrecks, most of which can be explored by snorkellers and divers. A shipwreck on a remote Lake Superior beach. This lake is the biggest of the Great Lakes - and the second-largest lake in the world at 31, square miles.
An old shipwreck on the shores of Lake Superior, which is over 1,ft deep in places. Divers can safely examine many of the wrecks, which lie in water between five and feet deep. It's also possible to see them without getting wet — thanks to glass-bottom boat tours.
The most infamous night of terror from Lake Huron's maritime history came in , when a great storm - nicknamed The Big Blow - sank 10 ships in one fateful night, and drove 20 more ashore.
The rusting wreck of the Niagara Scow upstream of the famous falls, enveloped by rapids. The boat brought two men unnervingly close to the edge of the falls in This image shows just how close the Niagara Scow came to the edge of the falls. Bradley, laying feet under the water, was discovered in by the Army Corps of Engineers. The foot-long bulk carrier Fedora was one of the larger classes of freighters during the late 19th century.
Unfortunately, the vessel met with a fire accident in when she was en route to Ashland from Duluth to bring iron ore.
This was a similar journey to the one undertaken by the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald. One of the stoutest vessels built at its time, the Fedora met its unprecedented fate because of a fire breaking out in its engine cabin. Though none of the crew aboard the vessel lost their lives, the Fedora soon became a lost cause as it burned and eventually sank into the waters of Chicago Creek in Buffalo Bay.
Salvage operations were conducted in November , and essential machinery was recovered for further use. The charred hull is a dangerous diving and boating site since portions of the vessel reach the surface and can damage vessels. John B. Cowle was fatally wrecked in a collision with another, killing 14 of the 24 crew members aboard. However, the colliding vessel was instrumental in saving many of the surviving members from the wrecked Cowle ship.
The surviving crew members were rescued by SS Scott, which resulted in fewer deaths than estimated. SS John B Cowle was involved in other minor accidents, including a collision with SS Erin, that resulted in the death of a few crew members working on the Erin at that time. Immediately after the sinking of John B. Cowle, a second John B. Cowle was put into service in The second vessel was successfully operated till Lost forever to the waters of Lake Superior, the steamship Vienna went down fatally in September after colliding with another steamship accidentally that was coming at her from the opposite direction.
Built in , Vienna had witnessed a series of accidents during her year career. It sank three years after her launch. During the final accident, both the vessels, Vienna and Nipigon, were heavy with a cargo of iron ore. It is supposed that the multiple repairs on her hull due to the numerous accidents she was a part of contributing to a weakened structure that easily broke apart on collision with the Nipigon.
Though the other vessel did try to tug the Vienna to safety, the shoals prevented a successful rescuing operation. No lives were lost owing to swift action by the Nipigon. At the time, a schooner, the Mattie C Bell, was towed by Vienna while heavily laden with iron ore. The Bell survived the sinking. The wreck of the vessel was discovered in , lying to feet under the water. The remains of Vienna lay in Whitefish Bay and was a famous diving site.
However, it became a protected and restricted region after the death of four scuba divers. She is presently part of an Underwater Preserve created by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources with strict regulations on artefacts brought up by divers.
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