Posted on 04/24/2018 4:01:22 PM PDT by BBell
thank you very much for posting these. I know it’s a pain.
I enjoyed them a lot.
The young lady has some cojones, her friends too.
The crew?? Guess I'll have to read up.
https://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/ontario/gunilda-shipwreck/
Amazing!
Thanks for posting! I can’t believe how well preserved everything is.
Me too.
Row boat must have been secured somehow and not needed. Looks like it’s just sitting there.
He was rich for a reason. Most rich folks are penny pinchers.
Not the Terror.
“They that go down to the sea in ship see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep”
It doesn’t pay to be cheap!
I bet the old Baron won more than he lost..........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Harkness
On the other hand it looks like he did nothing more than spend the wealth earned in a prior generation.
The church bells chime till it rang twenty-nine times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
That is true, But what protects it is how deep it is. I have been diving for over 20yrs with over 1000 dives. It takes a tremendous amount of training and equipment to do a dive like that. There doesn't look like there is anything of real value on that wreck so it wouldn't be worth the time and money to dive it on a treasure hunt.
By the way, WOW!! A BIG hat tip to the divers who made the dive and pictures!!
Just imagine, a fire burning in the fireplace
after all that time...
"When at last it broke free, the Gunilda keeled to starboard. Her masts hit the water and, as the vessel filled with water, the Harkness family, friends and crew scrambled to safety aboard the tugboat."
When the masts hit the water the floors had to be nearly vertical. And the the water rushed in.
Shots 3 and 5 look like they had portable electric fans??
Did some research on electricity and boats and found examples of electricity on boats on 1893 Chicago World’s Fair!!!!
So I guess they could have left the lights on.
Grew up on Lake Michigan. Spent time on all of them. Love The Great Lakes.
BBell, THX for the post!
A ghost ship. How did it go down without displacing the furniture?
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