Two shipwrecks found in Lake Superior help finish the 109-year-old story of the ‘darkest day in lumber history’

The Associated Press in Business Insider
April 12, 2023
Category: Froggy Foibles
Region: United States, US East

Michigan researchers have found the wreckage of two ships that disappeared into Lake Superior in 1914 and hope the discovery will lead them to a third that sank at the same time, killing nearly 30 people aboard the trio of lumber-shipping vessels. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced the discoveries this month. Ric Mixter said, “It solved a chapter in the nation’s darkest day in lumber history”. …The vessels owned by the Edward Hines Lumber Company sank into the ice-cold lake on Nov. 18, 1914, when a storm swept through as they moved lumber from Baraga, Michigan, to Tonawanda, New York. …Video footage from the Curtis wreckage showed the maintained hull of the steamship and still shining gauges — all preserved by Lake Superior’s cold waters. “We’re the first human eyes to see it since 1914, since World War I,” one team member said.

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