Read full article: Wreck of ship that sank in 1940 found in Lake ... Michigan lighthouses have been shining a light on the Great Lakes for centuries. With more than 3,200 miles of shoreline ...

The ship sank about 35 miles north of the Keweenaw ... Fountain found the area and knew it could be a wreck, and reached out to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) for help.

The Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes when she was launched on June 8, 1958, and sadly she became the biggest vessel to have ever been sunk there. On November 10, 1975 ...

Jones, who went down with his ship when heavy wind and rains sunk ... Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck ” in 2003. Its pages recounts the history of the J.

Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes, also posed significant dangers ... The storm’s ferocity left about forty ships sunk or stranded across all of the lakes, except Lake Ontario.

according to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. “We’re holding our own, going along like an old shoe,” was the last transmission sent out by the ship’s captain. The Edmund Fitzgerald ...