Windiate

Photo mosaic by Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and NOAA.

Image by Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and NOAA.

Wooden three masted schooner, 136x26x12, 322 t.. Sunk 1875, Dec 10
Place of Loss: off Middle Isl. near Rogers City, MI

Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, she became trapped in ice, cut and sunk. She was not reported as having passed the Straits and her spars were reported sticking out of the water near the Fox Islands, so she was thought for over 100 year to have been lost in Lake Michigan. She was discovered on the bottom of Lake Huron in 1987, in excellent condition, in 182 feet of water.

2013, June - 6 images *very good visibility