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17-03-2025
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Great Lakes history group finds speedy vessel lost in 1892
Mar. 16—WHITEFISH POINT, Michigan — After 132 years, the final resting place of the 300-foot steel steamer Western Reserve has been discovered roughly 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, using marine sonic technology side-scan sonar aboard the nonprofit's research vessel, David Boyd, made the initial discovery in late summer 2024. Subsequent remotely operated vehicle deployments confirmed the identity of the shipwreck, revealing a vessel broken in two, with the bow section resting on top of the stern in approximately 600 feet of water. "Knowing how the 300-foot Western Reserve was caught in a storm this far from shore made a uneasy feeling in the back of my neck," Darryl Ertel, the society's Director of Marine Operations said in a news release. The Western Reserve was a very important ship in her time. She was one of the first all-steel vessels on the Great Lakes, was built to break cargo shipping records and was deemed one of the safest ships afloat. One newspaper called her "the inland greyhound" for her outright speed on the lakes. Western Reserve was owned by millionaire Captain Peter G. Minch, a highly respected shipping magnate. Capt. Minch took a large part of his young family aboard his ship (under command of Captain Albert Myer) for a late-summer cruise up through Lake Huron en route to Two Harbors, Minnesota. The weather was pleasant until they reached Whitefish Bay, when rough weather led the crew to drop anchor to await better conditions. They soon weighed anchor and steamed into Lake Superior, a gale overtook the ship and at around 9 p.m., August 30, 1892, the Western Reserve started to break up and sink. The Minch family and the Western Reserve crew safely boarded and launched the vessel's two lifeboats. Almost immediately, one lifeboat overturned and many of the ship's crew disappeared. The remaining lifeboat occupants recovered only two of the crewmen. Within 10 minutes the big ship was gone, leaving one lifeboat with Minch family and the remaining crew aboard. They would be in the gale and darkness for the next 10 hours. Salvation was near at hand when a steamship passed them in the night. They screamed for a half-hour, but with no flares, they were not seen. At about 7:30 a.m. the next morning, they were within 1 mile of the shoreline west of the Deer Park Life-Saving Station (Lake Superior's southeastern shoreline), when the lifeboat overturned in the breakers. Only one survivor, Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart of Algonac, Michigan, lived to tell the tale. "Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic", said GLSHS Executive Director Bruce Lynn. "It is hard to imagine that Captain Peter G. Minch would have foreseen any trouble when he invited his wife, two young children and sister-in-law with her daughter aboard the Western Reserve for a summer cruise up the lakes. It just reinforces how dangerous the Great Lakes can be any time of year." Director of Marine Operations, Darryl Ertel and his brother and First Mate, Dan Ertel, have been looking for the Western Reserve for over two years. "We side-scan looking out a half mile per side and we caught an image on our port side. It was very small looking out that far, but I measured the shadow, and it came up about 40 feet." Darryl explained, "So we went back over the top of the ship and saw that it had cargo hatches, and it looked like it was broken in two, one half on top of the other and each half measured .with the side scan 150 feet long and then we measured the width and it was right on so we knew that we'd found the Western Reserve."
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14-03-2025
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Explorers Just Found a 130-Year-Old Shipwreck
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Western Reserve cargo ship was supposed to be a modern marvel in 1892, but it split in two during a storm and sank. The wreckage took the lives of 27 people, with one lone survivor able to swim a mile to shore and recount the tale. The ship, revered for its speed and technology, used the same steel as the Titanic did just 20 years later. The Western Reserve was designed as a new class of technological shipbuilding in the 1890s. Created by millionaire owner Peter Minch, it was intended to smash speed records on the Great Lakes as it sailed between Michigan and Canada. One of the first all-steel cargo ships built—using the same steel that the Titanic opted for 20 years later—Western Reserve was a 300-foot-long 'inland greyhound.' That all ended tragically on August 30, 1892. With 28 people aboard the cargo-less ship (including Minch, his wife, his children, and other members of his family), a storm whipped up on Lake Superior. Sitting higher in the water than usual because of the lack of cargo, Western Reserve split in half. Wheelsman Harry W. Stewart was the lone survivor, able to get onto a lifeboat with others and then swim a mile in the lake to shore after the lifeboat capsized 10 hours later. The ship wasn't seen again until diligent explorers with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found the wreckage off Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It took members Darryl and Dan Ertel over two years of searching for the ship to find it. 'We side-scan looking out a half mile per side and we caught an image on our port side,' said Darryl Ertel, according to a statement from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. 'It was very small looking out that far, but I measured the shadow, and it came up about 40 feet. So we went back over the top of the ship and saw that it had cargo hatches, and it looked like it was broken in two, one half on top of the other and each half measured with the side scan 150 feet long and then we measured the width and it was right on so we knew that we'd found the Western Reserve.' Crews then used a remotely operated vehicle to capture video of the broken ship, with the bow resting on top of the stern under approximately 600 feet of water. 'Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,' Bruce Lynn, Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society executive director, said in a statement. 'It is hard to imagine that Captain Peter G. Minch would have foreseen any trouble when he invited his wife, two young children and sister-in-law with her daughter aboard the Western Reserve for a summer cruise up the lakes. It just reinforces how dangerous the Great Lakes can be any time of the year.' Originally launched in Cleveland in 1890, the Western Reserve was the largest bulk carrier on the lakes at the time, and the first steel bulk carrier of the classic Great Lakes design, according to the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society. The tale of the tragic ending of the ship just two years later comes thanks to the lone survivor, who managed to find the U.S. Lifesaving Service station at Whitefish Point, Michigan. Stewart recounted sailing directly into a storm about 60 miles north of Whitefish Point, and after the ship broke in two 'halfway up the rigging,' it sank in just 10 minutes. Everyone on board was able to get into two lifeboats (one wooden and one metal), but the metal lifeboat capsized immediately. Stewart recounted that the wooden boat lasted 10 hours carrying 19 people, until it too capsized roughly a mile from shore. According to the historical society, Stewart said that he lost sight of the others, 'but the cries of the children, the screams of the women, and the moaning of the men were terrible for a few moments, when all became silent.' Stewart swam to shore, laid there for hours and then managed to make it another 10 miles to the lifesaving station. He attributed survival to a 'heavy knit close-fitting jacket.' While experts debated the stories and reasoning behind the Western Reserve failings, it was eventually accepted—especially following the rapid sinking of the Titanic—that the vulnerability of cheaper Bessemer steel contributed to the problem, and that the design (with the superstructure moved from the middle to the ends of the ship) added to the inherent fragility of the vessel. The new style of steel was determined to be relatively weak, and the pressure applied by the storm was too much for a metal that became more brittle in lower temperatures. The sinking of sister ship Gilcher just two months later (which had no survivors) helped substantiate the breakage theory. 'Knowing how the 300-foot Western Reserve was caught in a storm this far from shore made an uneasy feeling in the back of my neck,' Darryl Ertel said, 'a squall can come up unexpectedly anywhere and anytime.' You Might Also Like The Do's and Don'ts of Using Painter's Tape The Best Portable BBQ Grills for Cooking Anywhere Can a Smart Watch Prolong Your Life?
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12-03-2025
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Great Lakes shipwreck discovered 132 years later reveals tragic story
WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. – After 132 years, the wreck of a ship that sank in Lake Superior has been found. The wreck of the Western Reserve steamship, which sank on Aug. 30, 1892, was discovered about 60 miles from Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Historical Society used Marine Sonic Technology side-scan sonar aboard a non-profit research vessel. The initial discovery was made by David Boyd in the late summer of 2024. Using a remotely operated vehicle, teams were able to send the underwater robot to the depths of the wreckage to identify and photograph the ship. The photos show a ship broken in two, with the bow section resting on top of the stern. The Western Reserve served as an important ship for its time. It was the first all-steel vessel on the Great Lakes. It was built to break cargo shipping records due to its size. It was deemed one of the safest ships afloat, nicknamed the "Inland Greyhound" for its speed along the lakes. See It: 100 Bottles Of Champagne Found In 19Th-century Shipwreck The ship was owned by millionaire Capt. Peter G. Minch, a wealthy businessman in the shipping industry. The captain took his family on a late-summer cruise through Lake Huron en route to Two Harbours, Minnesota. What started as a pleasant boat ride turned into chaos as the weather took a turn for the worse at Whitefish Bay. This prompted the crew to drop anchor and wait out the storm, but they lifted the anchor, perhaps prematurely, and headed toward Lake Superior. On their way, a gale overtook the ship, and about 9 p.m., the vessel began to break up and sink. Within 10 minutes, the ship was gone, leaving one lifeboat with the Minch family and the remaining crew onboard. Initially, two lifeboats were launched but overturned, and many of the ship's crew disappeared. Only two crew members were recovered aboard the remaining lifeboat with the Minch family. Tropical Cyclone Alfred Reveals 130-Year-old Shipwreck On Australia Beach The surviving members would then have to sit amid the strong gale winds and darkness of the night for the next 10 hours. At one point, a steamship had passed through during the night, but without flares the lifeboat couldn't be seen. Despite screaming for 30 minutes at the boat, they were not heard or rescued. About 7:30 a.m. the next day, the lifeboat was within a mile of the shore of Deer Park Life Saving Station, when the boat overturned in breaking waves. Twenty-seven people perished. Only the boat's wheelsman, Harry W. Stewart of Algonac, Michigan, lived to tell the awful tale. "It is hard to imagine that Captain Peter G. Minch would have foreseen any trouble when he invited his wife, two young children and sister-in-law with her daughter aboard the Western Reserve for a summer cruise up the lakes," said GLSHS Executive Director Bruce Lynn. "It just reinforces how dangerous the Great Lakes can be…any time of year."Original article source: Great Lakes shipwreck discovered 132 years later reveals tragic story
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12-03-2025
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Ghost ship found after 132 years in the murky depths of 'Shipwreck Coast'
A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but came to a tragic end has been found more than 100 years after it sank, researchers announced this week. The vessel, the Western Reserve, went down 132 years ago during a summer cruise for the family of its millionaire owner and shipping magnate Peter G. Minch. The voyage to escape the heat ended in disaster along a stretch of Michigan now known as Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast that killed 27 and left only one survivor. Its resting place 600 feet deep off the coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula eluded researchers until last summer, when a crew from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the wreck. They announced the landmark find at the Wisconsin Underwater Archeological Association's annual Ghost Ships meeting Monday in Manitowoc. 'Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,' said the society's executive director, Bruce Lynn. 'It is hard to imagine that Peter Minch would have foreseen any trouble when he invited his wife, two young children and sister-in-law with her daughter aboard the Western Reserve for a summer cruise up the lakes. It just reinforces how dangerous the Great Lakes can be any time of year.' The Western Reserve was well known in its time. The 318-foot ship was one of the first vessels on the Great Lakes made entirely of steel. It was known for speed − even referred to as 'the inland greyhound" − and for being among the safest on the lakes. It broke the record for carrying the largest load of coal into Milwaukee during its time, Lynn said. Minch named it after a 3-million-acre area of land in northeastern Ohio along Lake Erie. Its sinking in 1892 earned it another reputation. More: Freight steamer, fireboat among another record number of Lake Michigan shipwreck discoveries The series of events that unfolded when the Western Reserve went down is known only because of a lone survivor, wheelsman Harry W. Stewart. The freighter set forth from Cleveland for Two Harbors, Minnesota, on what turned out to be its final voyage in August 1892. On board were Minch's wife, Anna; their children, Charlie, 9, and Florence, 6; Anna's sister, Mary Englebry; and her daughter, Bertha, 10. The ship's other captain, Albert Myers, also had his 19-year-old son on board. The ship had smooth sailing up until Aug. 30, when it arrived at Lake Superior's Whitefish Bay. The wind picked up and the weather shifted. Minch initially wanted to wait out the storm, but only ballast water weighed the ship down; it carried no cargo. So the crew headed for open water, entering a stretch so infamous for its dangers that it's now called Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast. An estimated 200 or more ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, according to Lynn. A powerful gale overtook the ship roughly 60 miles north of Whitefish Point, and it began breaking apart around 9 p.m. It sank within about 10 minutes. Most of the crew got into the ship's metal lifeboat, and the family boarded the wooden one. The metal boat capsized almost right away. Only two crew members − one of them Stewart − made it into the wooden boat. They drifted for about 10 hours. A steamship passed, but darkness and rain kept survivors from being seen. The lifeboat finally capsized a mile from the Lake Superior's southeastern shoreline. Only Stewart made it to land. "If it wasn't for Harry Stewart, we really wouldn't know what we know today about the Western Reserve," Lynn said. More: Rye seeds were lost in Great Lakes shipwreck for 146 years. Now, they could make whiskey. The discovery of the Western Reserve came after a two-year search by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. Researchers first picked up the wreckage using sonar aboard its research vessel, the David Boyd, on July 22, Lynn said. Darryl Ertel, director of marine operations, and Dan Ertel, the first mate, first spotted the ship. A remotely operated vehicle confirmed the wreck was the Western Reserve. It lay about 600 feet down and broken in two around 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. 'Knowing how the 300-foot Western Reserve was caught in a storm this far from shore made an uneasy feeling in the back of my neck,' said Darryl Ertel. 'A squall can come up unexpectedly … anywhere, and anytime.' The ship's bell remains intact, and many details, like the paint, are still visible, Lynn said. One of the clearest indications the wreck was the Western Reserve was a light that matched the only item recovered from the ship − also a light − that now sits in the National Museum of Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio. Newspaper records at the time damned the ship for its brittle steel construction. Many believe the state-of-the-art ship should have been able to stand up to the weather and waves, Lynn said. The Western Reserve's sister ship, the W.H. Gilcher, also sank two months later. More: What happened to a plane that disappeared in 1968 over Lake Superior? A robot may unravel the mystery. The Great Lakes are home to an astounding 6,000 shipwrecks in which 30,000 people have died, according to the Shipwreck Museum. Most famous of all is the Edmund Fitzgerald, a cargo ship that went down in 1975, killing 29. It sank in the same area as the Western Reserve. Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the disaster with his haunting song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Lightfoot's lyrics blame the disaster on the "Witch of November," the source of memorable and fierce storms on the Great Lakes and the cause of many shipwrecks, according to research. "When the witch angrily stirs her cauldron, no ship, no matter how large, is safe on the Great Lakes," according to a 1998 article in Weatherwise magazine by meteorologist Steve Horstmeyer and geographer Mace Bentley. As the season shifts toward winter, the polar jet stream begins to shift south and can stir up storms that produce howling winds and gigantic waves on the Great Lakes. This makes it the most dangerous time of year to be on the Great Lakes, according to Bentley. About 40% of all the Great Lakes shipwrecks have occurred in November. The storms can rival hurricanes. The one that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald had sustained winds of 67 mph, gusts of up to 86 mph and waves reported up to 35 feet, according to another vessel in the area that survived the storm. The Fitzgerald was in the worst possible location for the worst of the storm. Wind and waves from the west hit the freighter's broadside as it tried to flee south to safety in Whitefish Bay. It sank in 530 feet of water about 17 miles from Whitefish Bay, near the cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Disaster on the Great Lakes isn't limited to Whitefish Bay. One of the worst wrecks in all the Great Lakes happened in Lake Michigan in 1860. The 252-foot Lady Elgin, a passenger ship, was off the coast of northern Illinois when another ship rammed into it during a storm. The ship sank, and more than 300 people died. In Lake Huron, the Daniel J. Morrell also went down during a fierce November storm, killing 29 and leaving just one survivor. The freighter was making its last run of the 1966 season when it encountered 70-mph winds and 25-foot waves. The ship broke in two. Just one crew member, watchman Dennis Hale, was found 40 hours later by a Coast Guard helicopter. Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, has one of the highest concentrations of shipwrecks in the world. More than 2,000 ships have gone down in the lake, and just 400 of those wrecks have been found. One of the worst was the sinking of the G. P. Griffith in 1850. The ship, carrying more than 300 passengers, caught fire within sight of the Ohio shoreline. An estimated 250 to 295 people died. More: The legendary gales of November left the Great Lakes strewn with tragic shipwrecks Contributing: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, and Brendan Wiesner, the Sault Ste. Marie News Caitlin Looby is a Report for America corps member who writes about the environment and the Great Lakes for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Michael Loria is a national news reporter for USA TODAY. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Historic shipwreck found in Great Lakes after 132 years
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11-03-2025
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Ghost ship found after 132 years in the murky depths of 'Shipwreck Coast'
A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but came to a tragic end has been found more than 100 years after it sank, researchers announced this week. The vessel, the Western Reserve, went down 132 years ago during a summer cruise for the family of its millionaire owner and shipping magnate Peter G. Minch. The voyage to escape the heat ended in disaster along a stretch of Michigan now known as Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast that killed 27 and left only one survivor. Its resting place 600 feet deep off the coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula eluded researchers until last summer, when a crew from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the wreck. They announced the landmark find at the Wisconsin Underwater Archeological Association's annual Ghost Ships meeting Monday in Manitowoc. 'Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,' said the society's executive director, Bruce Lynn. 'It is hard to imagine that Peter Minch would have foreseen any trouble when he invited his wife, two young children and sister-in-law with her daughter aboard the Western Reserve for a summer cruise up the lakes. It just reinforces how dangerous the Great Lakes can be any time of year.' The Western Reserve was well known in its time. The 318-foot ship was one of the first vessels on the Great Lakes made entirely of steel. It was known for speed − even referred to as 'the inland greyhound" − and for being among the safest on the lakes. It broke the record for carrying the largest load of coal into Milwaukee during its time, Lynn said. Minch named it after a 3-million-acre area of land in northeastern Ohio along Lake Erie. Its sinking in 1892 earned it another reputation. More: Freight steamer, fireboat among another record number of Lake Michigan shipwreck discoveries The series of events that unfolded when the Western Reserve went down is known only because of a lone survivor, wheelsman Harry W. Stewart. The freighter set forth from Cleveland for Two Harbors, Minnesota, on what turned out to be its final voyage in August 1892. On board were Minch's wife, Anna; their children, Charlie, 9, and Florence, 6; Anna's sister, Mary Englebry; and her daughter, Bertha, 10. The ship's other captain, Albert Myers, also had his 19-year-old son on board. The ship had smooth sailing up until Aug. 30, when it arrived at Lake Superior's Whitefish Bay. The wind picked up and the weather shifted. Minch initially wanted to wait out the storm, but only ballast water weighed the ship down; it carried no cargo. So the crew headed for open water, entering a stretch so infamous for its dangers that it's now called Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast. An estimated 200 or more ships have sunk in Whitefish Bay, according to Lynn. A powerful gale overtook the ship roughly 60 miles north of Whitefish Point, and it began breaking apart around 9 p.m. It sank within about 10 minutes. Most of the crew got into the ship's metal lifeboat, and the family boarded the wooden one. The metal boat capsized almost right away. Only two crew members − one of them Stewart − made it into the wooden boat. They drifted for about 10 hours. A steamship passed, but darkness and rain kept survivors from being seen. The lifeboat finally capsized a mile from the Lake Superior's southeastern shoreline. Only Stewart made it to land. "If it wasn't for Harry Stewart, we really wouldn't know what we know today about the Western Reserve," Lynn said. More: Rye seeds were lost in Great Lakes shipwreck for 146 years. Now, they could make whiskey. The discovery of the Western Reserve came after a two-year search by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. Researchers first picked up the wreckage using sonar aboard its research vessel, the David Boyd, on July 22, Lynn said. Darryl Ertel, director of marine operations, and Dan Ertel, the first mate, first spotted the ship. A remotely operated vehicle confirmed the wreck was the Western Reserve. It lay about 600 feet down and broken in two around 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. 'Knowing how the 300-foot Western Reserve was caught in a storm this far from shore made an uneasy feeling in the back of my neck,' said Darryl Ertel. 'A squall can come up unexpectedly … anywhere, and anytime.' The ship's bell remains intact, and many details, like the paint, are still visible, Lynn said. One of the clearest indications the wreck was the Western Reserve was a light that matched the only item recovered from the ship − also a light − that now sits in the National Museum of Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio. Newspaper records at the time damned the ship for its brittle steel construction. Many believe the state-of-the-art ship should have been able to stand up to the weather and waves, Lynn said. The Western Reserve's sister ship, the W.H. Gilcher, also sank two months later. More: What happened to a plane that disappeared in 1968 over Lake Superior? A robot may unravel the mystery. The Great Lakes are home to an astounding 6,000 shipwrecks in which 30,000 people have died, according to the Shipwreck Museum. Most famous of all is the Edmund Fitzgerald, a cargo ship that went down in 1975, killing 29. It sank in the same area as the Western Reserve. Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the disaster with his haunting song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Lightfoot's lyrics blame the disaster on the "Witch of November," the source of memorable and fierce storms on the Great Lakes and the cause of many shipwrecks, according to research. "When the witch angrily stirs her cauldron, no ship, no matter how large, is safe on the Great Lakes," according to a 1998 article in Weatherwise magazine by meteorologist Steve Horstmeyer and geographer Mace Bentley. As the season shifts toward winter, the polar jet stream begins to shift south and can stir up storms that produce howling winds and gigantic waves on the Great Lakes. This makes it the most dangerous time of year to be on the Great Lakes, according to Bentley. About 40% of all the Great Lakes shipwrecks have occurred in November. The storms can rival hurricanes. The one that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald had sustained winds of 67 mph, gusts of up to 86 mph and waves reported up to 35 feet, according to another vessel in the area that survived the storm. The Fitzgerald was in the worst possible location for the worst of the storm. Wind and waves from the west hit the freighter's broadside as it tried to flee south to safety in Whitefish Bay. It sank in 530 feet of water about 17 miles from Whitefish Bay, near the cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Disaster on the Great Lakes isn't limited to Whitefish Bay. One of the worst wrecks in all the Great Lakes happened in Lake Michigan in 1860. The 252-foot Lady Elgin, a passenger ship, was off the coast of northern Illinois when another ship rammed into it during a storm. The ship sank, and more than 300 people died. In Lake Huron, the Daniel J. Morrell also went down during a fierce November storm, killing 29 and leaving just one survivor. The freighter was making its last run of the 1966 season when it encountered 70-mph winds and 25-foot waves. The ship broke in two. Just one crew member, watchman Dennis Hale, was found 40 hours later by a Coast Guard helicopter. Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, has one of the highest concentrations of shipwrecks in the world. More than 2,000 ships have gone down in the lake, and just 400 of those wrecks have been found. One of the worst was the sinking of the G. P. Griffith in 1850. The ship, carrying more than 300 passengers, caught fire within sight of the Ohio shoreline. An estimated 250 to 295 people died. More: The legendary gales of November left the Great Lakes strewn with tragic shipwrecks Contributing: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, and Brendan Wiesner, the Sault Ste. Marie News Caitlin Looby is a Report for America corps member who writes about the environment and the Great Lakes for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Michael Loria is a national news reporter for USA TODAY. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Historic shipwreck found in Great Lakes after 132 years
