Today:
Posted on 05/01/2024 12:17:18 PM PDT by MAGA2017
A 'cursed' wooden steamship that vanished in Lake Superior in 1909 with 14 crew members on board has finally been discovered.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society say they found the Adella Shores after it went missing on May 1, 1909, in Whitefish Point, Michigan.
Adella Shores - which locals feared had been cursed after its sober owners christened it by smashing a bottle of water on its hull rather than booze - was found more than 40 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in over 650 feet of water. The 195-foot ship was built in Gibraltar, Michigan, and weighed in at 735-ton, being owned by the Shores Lumber Company.
Footage taken of the wreckage show the large wooden appears to have remained largely intact in the water.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
...The church bell chimed ‘til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
...he looked like the wreck of Hesperus at the end
If only they had the extra 15 miles in her...
I like the one video of that song where they intro with a newscast of the wreck.
That's no omen. That's a track record. "Your mission, Captain, is to take this here wooden ship that's already sunk twice through ice-bound waters in the middle of a gale. Here, walk under that ladder with this broken mirror in front of a black cat. It's only superstition..."
What about bones?
“Look... okay...it is time, okay? (cackling)... for us to do what we have been...”
I read your post without scrolling all the way to the end. I read it line by line and when I reached the photo I busted out laughing.
It should not be acceptable here to show one source, but post another. But some here can’t seem to resit posting links to MSN which I won’t click on.
Original site link:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13371199/missing-steamship-michigan-cape-discovered.html
Quit your whining.
Quit your troll personal attacks and grow up.
Yeah, The Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy conjured up shades of the Adella Shores ...
In WWII. the US Navy bought several Great Lakes steam ships, cut off most of the superstructure, built a wooden deck, and used them to qualify pilots for carrier operations. They were not real aircraft carriers, just slow moving landing strips.
The Navy used the ships to train not just pilots, but also aircraft carrier deck crew. As a bonus, the training carriers also supplied aircraft damaged by nervous trainees, to a Navy aircraft repair school, after moving them by crane to a trailing barge.
A strange thing about “Gitche Gumee”, Lake Superior. It is normally a very COLD lake, freezing over in the winter, and it is also rather deep. Under those conditions, the bottom layer of the lake is rarely warmer than about 36 degrees, and organic decomposition does not occur. Whatever methane forms, does NOT rise in the upper levels of the water, but forms something called “methane ice”, a strange compound that can remain stable at temperatures below about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, keeping the methane from bubbling to the surface as a free gas. This substance prevents any further decomposition from taking place, and “fossil lumber” recovered from sunken vessels has been found in a near perfect state of preservation, so much so that is highly prized for fine furniture making. Presumedly, any bodies would still be relatively intact, even to the clothing, as a kind of mummy.
This history has absolutely nothing to do with the Edmund Fitzgerald other than water.
thanks for that
so many things in life right?
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