According to the Great Lakes Historical Society, Lake Erie has at least 1,500 shipwrecks, many dating back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. Perhaps the only smart crew-move of the night had the Ogdensburg returning to offer aid to the Atlantic. In the waters of Lake Erie are as many as 400 confirmed shipwrecks in its waters, many of which are marked by floating buoys. Obviously, for many of us, there’s just something about shipwrecks—maybe the history or the treasure or the mystery—that we find fascinating.
There are hundreds, likely thousands actually. August 7. Many have been found in recent years …
Only about 375 of Lake Erie’s wrecks have been found.
October 17. Meanwhile the Ogdensburg has stopped again to further assess any damage to itself. Immigrants crowded onto the deck of the Atlantic were dismayed to see part of the Ogdensburg’s bridge towering over them. The Cleveland Monsters minor league hockey team was originally called the Lake Erie Monsters and named for a mythical lake serpent first reported in 1793 by the captain of a sloop who claimed to have seen a snake-like creature in Lake Erie measuring over 16 feet (5 meters) in length.
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Map courtesy eriewrecks.com, website of … )All comments are moderated before being publishedAccording to the Great Lakes Historical Society, Lake Erie has at least 1,500 shipwrecks, many dating back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. Huron – 23%. [38] Most wrecks are undiscovered but believed to be well preserved and in good condition and at most only 200 feet (61 m) below the water surface. When their engines were shut down, they could now hear the cries of the passengers from the Atlantic. All images are used by permission and are the property of their respective owners.News and offers from Beachcombing Magazine“Cleveland, O., Oct. 22.
March 2. Many have been found in recent years by a small, dedicated band from the museum and the Cleveland Underwater Explorers club. is a favorite of divers; it sits upright, with much of her hull and decking intact, with some cargo hatches still open. Superior – 18%. For additional info on Lake Erie dives, and any of the ship wrecks pictured here, visit eriewrecks.com and wrecksandreefs.com. June 9. During Prohibition (1919-1933) great amounts of alcohol crossed Lake Erie from our rumrunning friends up in Canada; there is a mansion south of Buffalo, NY with a walkout basement, still complete with smooth sloped concrete in addition to stairs, for easy and fast forwarding of crates of smugglers’ booze.
8 Sunken Ships That Lie Deep Beneath The Waters Of Lake Erie. His corpse, though, seems to know it's dead. Lake Erie is a graveyard for hundreds of vessels taken down by violent storms that can whip up in a hurry. The Ohio State University Ohio Sea Grant College Program 1314 Kinnear Rd, Area 100 Columbus, OH 43212-1156 By Telephone Kohl, Cris (2005). Numbers are not exact as the pursor took cash and made no records, but estimates say the Atlantic left Erie with at least 600 hundred people crowded on to a ship that should only carry about 200. It said that she was blamed for dangerous conditions on the water — and over the years, the sinking of around 400 ships were blamed on the sea dragon.
There’s the Argo, a tank barge which sank while being tugged during a storm, in October 1937, in 40 feet of water off Canada's Pelee Island and may still hold over 100,000 gallons of volatile oil, if it hasn’t been slowly seeping out over the many decades.