Bound for Buffalo with grain from Milwaukee. Trapped in ice and hull opened. Orginally thought loss in Lake Michigan near Fox Islands. Discovered in 1987 Builder:  Thomas Windiate, Manitowoc, WI Built:  1873 Date and Type of Loss:  December 10, 1875 - Storm Dimensions:  136x26x12 Depth:  190', masts at 90', deck at 170' Level of Dive:  Technical Co...

She was overwhelmed by a storm and driven into shallow water, where she was abandoned and broke up. Builder:  G. Goble, Oswego, NY Built:  1865 Date and Type of Loss:  December 16, 1905 - Storm Dimensions:  136x26x11 290 gross ton Depth:   Level of Dive:   Condition:   Loss of Life:   Sources:  David Swayze

After 6a.m. on June 22, 1909 the 132 wooden steamer WILLIAM PETER THEW was rammed admidships by the steel steamer WILLIAM LIVINGSTON. The THEW was upbound in a thick 'pea soup' fog when she was run down by the downbound LIVINGSTON. After the collision the LIVINGSTON left the THEW to her own devices. As she layed there splintered and sinking in the...

She collided with the prop V.H. KETCHUM and sank Builder:  Wolfe & Davidson, Milwaukee/Manitowoc, WI Built:   1873 Date and Type of Loss:  October 14, 1899 - Collision Dimensions:  138x26x11 Depth:  130 + Level of Dive:  Technical Condition:   Loss of Life:  between 4 and 9 Sources:  Bedford 2000; Hoagman 1999; NOAA 1999; Stonehouse 1992; Swayze 19...

The Venus was carring grindstones when she was caught in a storm and foundered on Black River shoal. She lightened her load by dropping some massive square stones overboard (SW of her wreck in about 3-4 ft of water.) She was then floated off the shoal and made it about an eighth of a mile before she finnally sank. Builder:  MacLeod, New Jerusalem,...

Known only from remains on the bottom. Builder:  Gravel Dredge, unknown builder Built:   Date and Type of Loss:  Foundered Dimensions:   Depth:  15-20 feet Level of Dive:  Recreational Condition:  Broke in 3 pieces, crane boom, 200 yds at 300° boiler, steam winches, 500 yds at 30° anchor and 2 cylinder steam engine Loss of Life:   Sources:   Bedfor...

She foundered, [probably capsized] in the huge waves of the "Big Storm" of 1913. Builder:  American Ship Building Co. at Lorain, OH Built:  1909 Date and Type of Loss:  November (9-10),1913 - Foundered (capsized?) Dimensions:  504 x 54 x 30', 6372 gross ton Depth:  180 ft. Level of Dive:  Technical Condition:  Turtled half buried in mud Loss of Lif...

Collided in fog with steamer ORMIDALE and sank. Builder:  Unknown Built:  1904 Bodo, Norway Date and Type of Loss:  October 31, 1935 Dimensions:  241 ft, 619 net ton. Depth:  188 ft. Level of Dive:  Technical Condition:  Excellent, stern buried in mud. Loss of Life:   Sources:  Bedford 2000; Hoagman 1999; NOAA 1999; Stonehouse 1992; Swayze 1999; Mc...

Foundered in gale. Crew picked up at height of storm by steel steamer SIR THOMAS SHAUGHNESSY just before she sank.   Bound for Spanish R., Georgian Bay, Out of Bowmanville, Ont. Builder:   L. McDermont, Port Burwell (also given as Geo. Suffel) Built:  1871 Date and Type of Loss:  October 27, 1906, - Foundered in a gale Dimensions:  102x24x9, 135 gr...

On September 30, 1905 the newly rebuilt, P. H. Brickhead caught fire while at dock in Alpena. She was cut loose to drift free and burn at a safe distance from the Warf's along the Thunder Bay River. She usually carried cargo's of lumber or coal and managed, earlier in the year, to tow 6 barges with a total of 2,860,000 feet of lumber from Saginaw t...

a fire started under her boiler and she burned to a total loss at the dock while unloading her cargo. Her crew and the local dockwallopers pushed her away from the wharf. Builder:  J Stupinski - Detroit, MI Built:  1866 Date and Type of Loss:  October 28, 1890. Fire burned at the dock Dimensions:  125x26x9, 203 gross ton Depth:  6 ft. Level of Dive...

By 1914 the MONTANA had been rebuilt several times and was now a lumber carrier. She had also gone through a succession of owners, her last being G. A. Kotcher of Detroit. At the time of loss, she was valued at $12,000. In the early morning hours of September 6, 1914 while steaming off Sulphur Island when the forward watch discovered she was on fir...

On a foggy Saturday morning, June 30, 1906 the 231-foot steamer NEW ORLEANS was upbound with coal, inside of the downbound shipping channels, when she was rammed by the downbound steamer WILLIAM R. LINN. When the two ships finnaly spotted each other, there was no room for error. The ships both, trying to avoid a collision, both changed their course...

Ran aground on Middle Island in a storm. Later caught fire and was destroyed. Builder:  Bidwell & Banta, Buffalo, NY Built:  1853 Date and Type of Loss:  November 10, 1867 - Ran aground then burned Dimensions:  176x29x11 674 gross ton Depth:  15 ft. Level of Dive:  Recreational Condition:  Machinery and some of the hull is left. Loss of Life:   Sou...

On September 22, 1917 the William P. Rend floundered and sunk with a partial load of limestone just north of the Cement Plant channel. Her crew of nine were rescued without injury. The Rend started life in 1888 as the 2,970 ton, steamer GEORGE G. HADLEY but on June 7, 1902, Captained by Mike Fitzgerald, she collided with the whaleback steamer THOMA...

The collision between the MONROVIA and ROYALTON occured at 2:05pm on June 25, 1959 in a "pea soup" fog. The 430', 6700 ton MONROVIA was built in Glasgow, Scotland in 1943 as Liberty Ship to help in "The War Effort". The MONROVIA was operated under a Liberian Flag and manned by a Greek crew.   The MONROVIA, Owned by the Eastern Shipping Company of L...

Tow of the steamer ZILLAH, she caught fire from spontaneous combustion. Her crew abandoned and she drifted around the area while burning to the waterline over a period of three days. She finally sank. Builder:  Lent, Conneaut, OH Built:  1864 rebuilt 1879 Date and Type of Loss:  October 29 1905 - Fire burned to the water line Dimensions:  147x39x13...

The GRECIAN was one of six sister ships. All but one were lost; the SAXON which was sold and renamed the ANNE JENSEN, The BRITION wrecked on Point Abino in Lake Erie during 1929, the GERMAN (renamed YANKEE) sunk in collision off Fire Island, New York in 1919, the NORMAN lost 20 miles north off Presque Isle in Lake Huron following a collision in 189...

On June 1, 1887, while north bound in a thick fog and heavy weather, the schooner Lucinda VanValkenburg was loaded with coal when the Steamer LEHIGH rammed her. Builder:  Albert Little Built:  1862 Date and Type of Loss:  June 1,1887 - Collision Dimensions:  129x26x13, 302 gross ton Depth:  70 ft. Level of Dive:  Recreational Condition:  Hull parti...

On Wednesday evening, November 24, 1909, with a her cargo holds full of limestone from Kelly's Island, Ohio and a deck load of 500 barrels of salt taken on in St. Clair, Michigan Captain John Sinclair pulled the wooden steamer Oscar T. Flint into Thunder Bay to affect repairs to their air pump. The Flint had the barge Redington in tow to help carry...

Attributes vesslterms feature_type Wrecks - Visible chart US,US,graph,chart 14860 latdec 45.13886 londec -83.16107 depth sounding_type history Wrecks quasou watlev always dry

Attributes vesslterms feature_type Wrecks - Submerged, nondangerous chart US,US,graph,chart 14860 latdec 45.08375 londec -83.08863 depth sounding_type history quasou depth unknown watlev always under water/submerged

Attributes RECRD 2493 VESSLTERMS MONOHANSETT FEATURE_TYPE Wreck - Submerged, dangerous to surface navigation LATDEC 45.032792 LONDEC -83.191631 GP_QUALITY Low DEPTH 0 SOUNDING_TYPE YEARSUNK HISTORY 02493HISTORYL-574/82--THE THUNDER BAY SHIPWRECK SURVEY STUDY REPORT; SUBMERGED DANGEROUS WRECK. WOODEN HULLED STEAMER, BUILT IN 1872. LENGTH 165 FT, WID...