SS Samuel Mather (1887)
The SS ''Samuel Mather'' was the first of seven U.S. merchant ships to bear that name. The wooden ''Mather'' sank in 1891 after she was rammed by the steel cargo ship, freighter ''Brazil'' in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay from Point Iroquois Light, Point Iroquois, ending the ''Mather's'' 4-year career. Her intact wreck is a rare of example of wooden freighters that plied the Great Lakes and she is a popular scuba diving site. Although there was no loss of life when the ''Mather'' sank, her wreck claimed the lives of three scuba divers more than 100 years after she sank. Artifact (archaeology), Artifacts from her wreck were illegally removed in the 1980s by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. 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 wreck of the ''Mather'' is protected as part of an underwater museum in the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve. Career Shipwreck historian Frederic ...
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Flag Of The United States (1867–1877)
The national flag of the United States of America, often referred to as the ''American flag'' or the ''U.S. flag'', consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton (referred to specifically as the "union") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate with rows of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 U.S. states, and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from Great Britain, and became the first states in the U.S. Nicknames for the flag include the ''Stars and Stripes'', ''Old Glory'', and the ''Star-Spangled Banner''. History The current design of the U.S. flag is its 27th; the design of the flag has been modified officially 26 times since 1777. The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4, 1 ...
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