The vessel was carrying iron ore and being towed by a steamer when the cargo ship sank during a storm.
WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. — A 292-foot steamship that sank a hundred years ago in Lake Superior has been found, officials with a shipwreck museum said Wednesday.said a Whaleback vessel named Barge 129 was found in 2021 in 650 feet of the lake’s water about 35 miles off Vermilion Point. The society found it, along with eight other shipwrecks, using sonar technology.
A Whaleback has low, rounded hulls, decks, and deckhouses designed to reduce water and wind resistance, according to the Smithsonian. Between 1887 and 1898, 44 whalebacks were produced: 23 were barges and 21 were steamships, including one passenger vessel, it said.
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