The last bit of ice has finally disappeared from Lake Michigan , give away , to those in the air , what consist beneath the vitreous silica well-defined waves : shipwreck . Lots of shipwrecks . On a patrol last Friday , a crew from the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City in Michigan snapped some gorgeous photos of just a few of the wrecks along the shoreline , thenposted them to Facebook .
Unpredictable weather on Lake Michigan has sent many a ship to a watery grave . The vessels the Traverse City - based Coast Guard photograph are located in an area called the Manitou Passage Underwater Preserve , which , according to Michigan Live , has numerous wrecks from the 19th 100 — which , these days , are popular dive destination . There are two deep-set ship in this photo , neither of which the Coast Guard has identified .
agree to MichiganPreserves.org , " During the heyday of Michigan lumber , this was a booming shipping area . It is also an area where ships have sought safety by assay to ride out storms in the lee of the Islands . These activities have produced a substantial stock of known and unknown shipwrecks . " This wreck has yet to be key .
This wreckage go to theRising Sun , a 133 - foot - long wooden steamer that was owned by a religious group called the House of David , and , grant to the Daily Mail , was " returning from High Island , where [ the mathematical group member ] expend the summer , when it crashed in a sudden snowstorm . " The vessel was maroon north of Pyramid Point on October 29 , 1917 , and the passengers and crew escaped in lifeboats and were rescue the next morning ; theRising Sunwastorn asunder by moving ridge and weather(you’re able to see the vessel before it sankhere ) .
This is the wreckage of theJames McBride , a 121 - foot - long brig that was launch on April 1 , 1848 . That same yr , the ship made a historic misstep . According to the Traverse City Coast Guard , " theMcBridesailed to the Atlantic Ocean to pick up a freight of salt at Turk Island . On her return she stopped at Nova Scotia and added codfish to her manifest . She delivered her load to Chicago on December 4 , 1848 . This trip created a virtuoso because it was believe to be the first cargo carried direct from the Atlantic to a Lake Michigan porthole . "
But the ship was not destined to have a long life : In mid - October 1857 , the ship sailed for the Manitou Islands , where it pick up wood load before heading back to Chicago . But on October 19 , theMcBridewas caught in a gale and ran aground near kip Bear Dune . The boat was uninsured and in poor term , so the crew desolate it — which owner John Stafford was manifestly all right with , " saying the vessel had returned more in profit than his investing of $ 4000 . " The wreckage now sits in 15 base of water system .
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