Two longtime friends and shipwreck enthusiasts, Joe Van Wagnen and Mark Gammage have discovered an intact schooner in Lake Huron that sunk less than a month after the Confederate Army fired on Fort Sumter on April 12th, 1861 signaling the start of the...more » ...
David Mekker For The Love Of A Ship The Sad Saga Of The Alvin Clark Launched in 1846 and lost in 1864, the Clark was discovered in 1967 on the dark and murky bottom of Lake Michigan. The ship was virtually a submerged time capsule, and was in perfect condition. Could the ship be ra...
IN SEARCH OF SUNSETS AND SHIPWRECKS ON LAKE HURONYVONNE BUTORAC Special to The News
TheGreat Lakes ShipwreckHistorical Society found Atlanta 650 feet below Lake Superior. The 172-foot schooner barge sank in 1891. Its recent discovery was the steamer Cyprus, which went down in 1907. North Carolina Coast also has a diverse history of seafaring. Marine archaeologistshave discovered m...
Wayne Lusardi, Michigan’s state maritime archaeologist, is pushing to raise more pieces of a World War II plane flown by a Tuskegee airman that crashed in Lake Huron in 1944. “Divers started discovering (planes) in the 1960s and 1970s,” he said. “Some were ...
TheGreat Lakes ShipwreckHistorical Society found Atlanta 650 feet below Lake Superior. The 172-foot schooner barge sank in 1891. Its recent discovery was the steamer Cyprus, which went down in 1907. North Carolina Coast also has a diverse history of seafaring. ...
Keywords: corrosion, shipwrecks, fresh water, Lake HuronMacleod, Ian DMuseum, Western AustralianHuron, Lake
MacLeod, I.D., & Binnie N.E., 2011, "A long-term study of conservation management and corrosion of shipwrecks in the Fathom Five Underwater National Park, Lake Huron, Canada" Preprints for ICOM-CC Triennial Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2011, paper 1201, 1-8...
WA Branch - Fresh Water Corrosion on Historic Shipwrecks.The article examines the corrosion on wooden and composite wood-iron shipwrecks at the shores of Lake Huron in Tobermory, Ontario by Ian MacLeod.EBSCO_AspCorrosion & Materials