- Daily Mail link (not MSN)
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.
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That’s what propelled her career. 🤣
This is very nice, thank you.. :)
I hate boats, I used to own one
A hole in the water you’d pour money into?
Pretty much. Next ones gonna be a canoe.
6⁰0 + feet down with no oxygen. Probably bones down there. But they will probably fall apart when you touch them.
You’re not going down there on a scuba rig.
You may be able to find some guy with a fiberglass tub.....
I recall seeing a story , probably 20 years ago , about folks that raise up old logs and mill them. It was quite lucrative from what they were saying.
“This history has absolutely nothing to do with the Edmund Fitzgerald other than water.”
Au contraire mon frere
Both vessels were freighters hauling cargo when they sank.
Both went down without a trace and said to have “vanished”
Both failed to send a distress signal before they went down
Both crews died as a result of adhering to their commercial obligations.
Both were committed to a commercial time table they had little capacity to alter.
Both sank with all hands.
Both were a mystery when they went down.
Both were mourned by families and mariners for years.
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Live a little will ya...
Maybe some day you’ll have greater respect for people who die adhering to their obligations and keeping their agreements. That’s what the Big-Pants-People do - they adhere to their obligations.
History Channel. Log men or somesuch. They find hickory and pine and cedar etc. in the river bottoms. Very lucrative.
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