Thanks cripplecreek.
Posted on 07/22/2015 6:33:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek
LAKE MICHIGAN — It was 3:30 a.m., and Jeff Voss was tired.
Voss, a tool and die shop owner when he's not diving on shipwrecks, had been at the wheel since midnight, kept awake by Red Bull and the monotonous duty of keeping the boat on course while simultaneously monitoring the sonar.
Somewhere below, a phantom lay waiting. Voss and his fellow wreck sleuths had been patiently combing a 10-square-mile grid of Lake Michigan off Muskegon for the past three days in a modified 25-foot Bayliner; "mowing the lawn" with side-scan sonar in search of a lost propeller steamer that had slipped gently below the icy lake surface more than 116 years ago.
Voss was about to wake fellow searchers Jack van Heest and David Trotter to hand off the boring job when the sonar picked up a structure.
Paydirt.
(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...
Thanks cripplecreek.
"The last confirmed sighting happened a couple of days later, on Sunday afternoon, when a passing railcar ferry reported the ship still afloat."
I'm assuming that they "reported" it after they had reached their destination.
The article has been edited to read “reported” instead of “radioed” since last night when I copied and pasted the quote.
A few years back, I visited the Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola. We were guided by a 90 year old WW II Hell Cat pilot. He related a great tale. For his 80th birth birthday he received a great present, flying a Hell Cat retrieved from Lake Michigan and painstakingly rebuilt by the guys at the museum.
It turns out they actually have several. The Navy built a practice carrier in Lake Michigan for landings. There were many failed landing attempts and many planes in the water. The pure clear water preserved rather than damaged the air craft. When retrieved the volunteers could clean them up and put in flying condition.
The practice carrier was in Lake Michigan rather than at Pensacola because of danger from submarine attack
BTW.... that museum is in my view superior to that at Wright Patterson
Seems that someone told them about the discrepancy.
Kudos to you ...
Cool story about an 1899 shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan in remarkable condition. I know that it is closer to Michigan than Wisconsin, but LM is our lake too!
FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
” I sailed the breadth of Lake Erie, and across it to Canada.”
I used to sail out of Sandusky Bay, in a 36’ Islander. Sailing the islands was fun. Went to Canada a couple times. I liked to sail alone. Ticked my Dad off!
WOW! Amazing discovery. :)
You HAD to expect this from me. :)
‘My Heart Will Go On’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2UO0-pE9T4
Interesting piece...
According to the article I read yesterday, he was one of many who sailed on the Titanic, and did not survive.
Just reread yesterday’s article, and I was incorrect. It was the owner of the Moran, Captain Edward Gifford Crosby, who died on the Titanic. Sorry!
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