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47.478089°N 90.999858°W. / 47.478089; -90.999858 ( Amboy) Amethyst/Sophie's Wreck. Wooden tug. 1868. 1888. 8 feet (2.4 m) Wreck of a small wooden tugboat discovered in 2007 near Duluth, Minnesota. Thought to be the remains of the Amethyst, a tug which burned and sank near Duluth, Minnesota in 1888.
Sank on Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot-long (222 m) freighter that sank of an unknown cause in a storm on Lake Superior. The Fitzgerald is the largest ship to sink on the lakes. 46°59.91′N 85°06.61′W. / 46.99850°N 85.11017°W / 46.99850; -85.11017 ( SS Edmund Fitzgerald) SS Carl D. Bradley.
The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1] This list includes shipwrecks that are located in the waters of Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent ...
More: Lake Superior shipwreck Adella Shores, missing since 1909, finally found. More: ‘Four days of hell’: Remembering the 1913 storm that sunk a dozen Great Lakes ships.
Sign, Graveyard of the Great Lakes, Whitefish Point. 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. [1] More ships have wrecked in this area than any other part of Lake Superior.
Coordinates: 46.7772°N 84.951°W. Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve. The Comet under sail. The only known treasure ship of Lake Superior, she sank in 1875 with 70 tons of silver ore. [1] Location within the state of Michigan. Location. Lake Superior, Chippewa County, Luce County, Michigan USA. Nearest city.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station 11 miles (18 km) north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The light station property was transferred to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS), the Michigan Audubon Society (MAS), and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1996.
Whitefish Point is a cape of Michigan 's Upper Peninsula, United States, marking the entry point of Whitefish Bay. It is 11 miles (18 km) north of the unincorporated community of Paradise, Michigan . Whitefish Point is known for the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, its Lake Superior shoreline, the Whitefish Point Lighthouse and as a prime birding ...