What famous shipwreck is in Lake Superior?


What famous shipwreck is in Lake Superior? Thousands of boats, ships and canoes have been claimed by Lake Superior over the centuries. The Edmund Fitzgerald is simply the most famous and one of the most recent.


How deep is Lake Superior?

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh water.


Was a missing ship found after 150 years?

In March, a ship carrying a load of coal when it sank in a storm in 1891 was discovered in the lake. And in February, a 144-foot shipwreck that searchers called a Bad Luck Barquentine was found in Lake Superior more than 150 years after it sank.


What was found at the bottom of Lake Superior?

Link Copied! The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has found the wreck of a lost ship in Lake Superior. The 144-foot Barquentine Nucleus was found under 600 feet of water about 40 miles northwest of Vermilion Point.