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Graveyard Of The Great Lakes
The Graveyard of the Great Lakes comprises the southern shore of Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Michigan, and Whitefish Point, though Grand Island has been mentioned as a western terminus. More ships have wrecked in this area than any other part of Lake Superior. 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. Also, as late as the 20th century, weather prediction was extremely unreliable, "a haphazard process, very imprecise and unreliable." A ship might have no idea of the weather into which it was sailing, or the weather coming at it. These shipwrecks are now protected by the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve. History After the St. Lawrence Seaway was constructed, all inter-lake traffic on Lake Superior went at least near Whitefish Point. Storms that claimed multiple ships include the Mataafa Storm in November 1905 and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
129 (barge)
''129'' (also known as ''Barge 129'', or ''No.129'') was an American whaleback barge in service between 1893 and 1902. Built between December 1892 and May 1893, in Superior, Wisconsin, (or West Superior, Wisconsin), by Alexander McDougall (ship designer), Alexander McDougall's Superior Shipbuilding Company, American Steel Barge Company, for McDougall's fleet of the same name, based in Buffalo, New York. She was one of a class of distinctive and experimental ships designed and built by McDougall. The whalebacks were designed to be more stable in high seas. They had rounded decks, and lacked the normal straight sides seen on traditional lake freighters. ''129'' entered service on May 22, hauling wheat from Superior. She was sold to the Bessemer Steamship Company of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900. In 1901, she became owned by the Pittsburgh Steamship Company of Duluth, Minnesota, when the Bessemer fleet merged into it. On October 13, 1902, ''129'' was Glossary of nautical terms (A-L)#d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS M
SS is an abbreviation for ''Schutzstaffel'', a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany. SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to: Places *Guangdong Experimental High School (''Sheng Shi'' or ''Saang Sat''), China *Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code) *South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS) *SS postcode area, UK, around Southend-on-Sea *San Sebastián, Spanish city Arts, entertainment, and media *SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band * ''SS'' (manga), a Japanese comic 2000-2003 *SS Entertainment, a Korean entertainment company *''S.S.'', for Sosthenes Smith, H. G. Wells pseudonym for story ''A Vision of the Past'' *SS, the production code for the 1968 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Wheel in Space'' *''Sesame Street'', American kids' TV show Language *Ss (digraph) used in Pinyin * ß or ss, a German-language ligature * switch-reference in linguistics *''Scilicet'', used as a section sign * (''in the strict sense'') in Latin *Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss") Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS John Mitchell (1906)
SS ''John Mitchell'' was a steel-hulled, American lake freighter in service between 1907 and 1911. She was built in 1906 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in St. Clair, Michigan, for the Cornell Steamship Company of Chicago, Illinois, which was managed by C.W. Elphicke. She entered service in 1907, and had a sister ship named ''William B. Davock''. Throughout her career, ''John Mitchell'' carried iron ore and coal. On October 4, 1908, she ran aground at Indiana Harbor, Indiana, while loaded with iron ore. Early in the morning of July 7, 1911, ''John Mitchell'' left Buffalo, New York, with between and of coal bound for Superior, Wisconsin. On the morning of July 10, ''John Mitchell'' entered Lake Superior. A thick fog that hung over the lake severely reduced visibility. When she was off Vermilion Point, ''John Mitchell'' was inexplicably rammed in her port bow by the unladen bulk freighter ''William Henry Mack''. Following the collision, ''John Mitchell'' immedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS John B
SS is an abbreviation for '' Schutzstaffel'', a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany. SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to: Places * Guangdong Experimental High School (''Sheng Shi'' or ''Saang Sat''), China * Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code) * South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS) * SS postcode area, UK, around Southend-on-Sea *San Sebastián, Spanish city Arts, entertainment, and media * SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band * ''SS'' (manga), a Japanese comic 2000-2003 * SS Entertainment, a Korean entertainment company *''S.S.'', for Sosthenes Smith, H. G. Wells pseudonym for story ''A Vision of the Past'' *SS, the production code for the 1968 ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The Wheel in Space'' *'' Sesame Street'', American kids' TV show Language *Ss (digraph) used in Pinyin * ß or ss, a German-language ligature * switch-reference in linguistics *'' Scilicet'', used as a section sign * (''in the strict sense'') in Latin *Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Indiana (1848)
The ''SS Indiana'' was a freighter built in 1848. It was built with an 18-foot steam engine with an Erickson Screw Propeller. It served Lake Superior as a passenger ship and later became a transporter for iron ore after the opening of the Soo Locks. During a storm, the boat started leaking near the propeller shaft, causing the ship to founder at Crisp Point Light on June 6, 1856. It was carrying iron ore from Marquette, Michigan during the time of its accident. In 1979, the Smithsonian Institution, the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the United States Navy salvaged the steam engine from Lake Superior. The engine and related artifacts are held in the collection of the National Museum of American History. See also * Graveyard of the Great Lakes The Graveyard of the Great Lakes comprises the southern shore of Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Michigan, and Whitefish Point, though Grand Island has been mentioned as a western terminus. More ships have wrecked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lakes, which are Lake Superior, Superior, Lake Michigan, Michigan, Lake Huron, Huron, Lake Erie, Erie, and Lake Ontario, Ontario and are in general on or near the Canada–United States border. Hydrologically, lakes Lake Michigan–Huron, Michigan and Huron are a single body joined at the Straits of Mackinac. The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes. The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are second-largest by total volume, containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is , and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is , slightly less than the volume of Lake Baikal (, 22–23% of the world's surface fresh water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces. For 17 years, ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' carried taconite iron ore from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and other Great Lakes ports. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records six times, often breaking her own record. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers (between lakes Huron and Erie), and entertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS D
SS is an abbreviation for ''Schutzstaffel'', a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany. SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to: Places *Guangdong Experimental High School (''Sheng Shi'' or ''Saang Sat''), China *Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code) *South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS) *SS postcode area, UK, around Southend-on-Sea *San Sebastián, Spanish city Arts, entertainment, and media *SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band * ''SS'' (manga), a Japanese comic 2000-2003 *SS Entertainment, a Korean entertainment company *''S.S.'', for Sosthenes Smith, H. G. Wells pseudonym for story ''A Vision of the Past'' *SS, the production code for the 1968 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Wheel in Space'' *''Sesame Street'', American kids' TV show Language *Ss (digraph) used in Pinyin * ß or ss, a German-language ligature * switch-reference in linguistics *'' Scilicet'', used as a section sign * (''in the strict sense'') in Latin *Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss") Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Cyprus
SS ''Cyprus'' was a lake freighter that sank during a gale storm on Lake Superior on 11 October 1907. The ship went down in 460 feet (140 m) of water at , in United States waters about 8 miles (7 nm; 13 km) north of Deer Park in Luce County, Michigan. All but one of the 23 members of the crew perished. Construction ''Cyprus'' was built in Lorain, Ohio and launched 17 August 1907. She was a 420-foot-long (128 m), 15,000 ton (13,608 tonne) steel-hulled steamer. She was owned by the Lackawanna Steamship Company, (a subsidiary of Pickands Mather and Company) and based out of Fairport, Ohio, northeast of Cleveland, on Lake Erie. A marine trade publication described ''Cyprus'' as a very seaworthy vessel in an article published after her sinking. Sinking On only her second voyage, ''Cyprus'' was hauling iron ore from Superior, Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York when a moderate gale arose off Deer Park. The gale, according to contemporary accounts, was reported as nothing that ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Comet (1857)
SS ''Comet'' was a steamship that operated on the Great Lakes. ''Comet'' was built in 1857 as a wooden-hulled propeller-driven cargo vessel that was soon adapted to carry passengers. She suffered a series of maritime accidents prior to her final sinking in 1875 causing the loss of ten lives. She became known as the only treasure ship of Lake Superior because she carried 70 tons of Montana silver ore when she sank. The first attempts to salvage her cargo in 1876 and 1938 were unsuccessful. ''Comet'' was finally salvaged in the 1980s when the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society illegally removed artifacts from the wreck. The artifacts are now the property of the State of Michigan and are on display as a loan to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The fate of her silver ore cargo is unknown. ''Comet''s wreck is now protected by the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve as part of an underwater museum. History The , 744-ton wooden propeller ship ''Comet'', along with her siste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miztec (schooner Barge)
The ''Miztec'' was built as a 3-masted schooner in 1890. She was later converted to a schooner barge and served as a consort for lumber hookers on the Great Lakes. She escaped destruction in a severe 1919 storm that sank her longtime companion, the SS ''Myron'', only to sink on the traditional day of bad luck, Friday the 13th, 1921, with the loss of all hands. She came to rest on Lake Superior's bottom off Whitefish Point near the ''Myron''. The ''Miztec’s'' wreck was illegally salvaged in the 1980s. Artifacts from the ''Miztec'' became the property of the State of Michigan after they were seized in a 1992 Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) raid on the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The State allows the museum to hold a triple sheave block and hook and a double sheave block and hook from the ''Miztec'' as a loan. Her wreck is now protected by the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve as part of an underwater museum. Career The 194 foot wooden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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