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The information here is for a wide range of ages, grades k12, depending on which objectives and activities are selected, so please check first to make sure your choices are appropriate for your. The great lakes maritime database is an extensive source of information on approximately 14,000 19 th century ships that sailed the great lakes. These are the bestknown andor most unique shipwrecks on the canadian side of the great lakes. The great lakes maritime database is an extensive source of information on approximately 14,000 19th century ships that sailed the great lakes. Dave swayzes great lakes shipwrecks and history page. Flickr on april 18th 2005, adobe announced that it was going to acquire macromedia. Containing almost a fifth of the worlds fresh water, the great lakes system of superior, michigan, huron, erie. I started this website in 1994 primarily as a link collection for my personal use. Researchers retrieve an autonomous underwater vehicle fitted with sensor technology. The great lakes shipwreck file vessel names that begin with a. Dive log software options for shearwater perdix ai.
Hcgls holdings in this area total more than 2,000 linear feet and approximately 450 collections. Includes bottom characteristics, shipwrecks, submarine pipelines, and cables noaas enc direct to gis provides free coastal gis data. Wisconsin historical society shipwreck database part of wisconsins maritime trails. The great lakes shipwreck historical society would like to thank capt. We will gladly provide books, at no additional charge, with a personalized message to you or to the books recipient, written by the author, and have each book you order signed by the authors, thus creating a unique collectors item for you or a very personal gift for someone of your choice.
Map, great lakes, shipwrecks, maps library of congress. The great lakes have provided transportation for michigans inhabitants for hundreds of years. After sitting idle for four years during the great depression in 1933 millionaire. Coast surveys automated wreck and obstruction information system awois contains information on over 10,000 submerged wrecks and obstructions in the coastal waters of the united states. Shipwreck links fred stonehouse, author fred stonehouse is one of the most popular and prolific writers of our time when it comes to great lakes shipwrecks. It was one of the first pages on the internet detailing. Great lakes maritime history wisconsin maritime museum.
If youre interested in learning about shipwrecks, this is the event for you. Includes searchable databases for vessels, ports and maritime personnel that. Shipwrecks of lake champlain, usa lake champlain underwater historic preserves, usa located sunken submarines in us waters. Search for shipwrecks multibeam data collected on an underwater wreck found in the gulf of mexico. Great lakes shipwreck research brendon baillods collection of great lakes information including the wmhs great lakes vessel enrollment database, the accident database and one of the best collections of links. A museum in upper michigan pays tribute to the lives lost on the waters of lake superior. Wreck chart showing the location of wrecks occasioned through founderings, gales of wind, fogs, and general stormy weather conditions from 1886 to 18. Many of these ships were never found, so the exact number of shipwrecks in the lakes is unknown. Politically, the great lakes and their region are divided between the canadian province of ontario and the u. Knowing the locations of shipwrecks and other obstructions has always been important for safe navigation.
Explore wisconsins great lakes shipwrecks through underwater video, historic photographs and archaeological discoveries. Environment, great lakes, and energy the applicability of some air quality requirements is based upon a facilitys potential to emit pte air pollutants. The director of the great lakes shipwrecks museum on whitefish point near the sinking site admitted to an unlicensed dive in 2002. It includes commercial vessels which were total losses or were declared total losses and later recovered, plus a few wrecks which were significant for other. Thanks to an online map, you can take a closer look at great lakes shipwrecks, as well as boating acess sites, diving information and each boats history. Here a list of ten such noteworthy shipwrecks of the great lakes. Jun 01, 2001 shipwrecks of the great lakes hancock, paul on. Metzler great lakes vessel database is a comprehensive index of great lakes ships from the 18th and 19th centuries. Jun 11, 20 19 ghost ship shipwreck discovered in lake superior a group of shipwreck hunters have found what appears to be the henry b. These databases represent a portion of the data and photography held by the hcgl. Dave sutton and technical diver erik foreman for their assistance in surveying the a. This one is very special the sloop washington, built on lake erie in pennsylvania in 1798, sank in lake ontario during a storm. The usgennet data repository was established in 2004 by the united states genealogy network, inc.
View of ss eastland from the south side of river after the accident. Northern maritime research has been documenting shipwrecks for the last 23 years in the northern shipwrecks database. Unusually low tides at a beach in north cornwall beach briefly revealed the remains of shipwrecks from 125yearsago. Thousands of vessels have been lost throughout the great lakes. Shipwrecks uk shipwrecks in the seas of britain and ireland. About brendon baillods great lakes shipwreck research. For purposes of this list, the great lakes downbound end is approximately on a line between clayton, ny and kingston, ontario, at the head of the st. More than 25 years of research has resulted in the northern shipwrecks database which documents over 100,000 north american shipwrecks over the last 400 years along our coasts, the great lakes and rivers, as well as thousands of vessels lost around the world during times of war and peace. To find hcgl materials, search the catalog, search the databases, or browse finding aids.
They know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew. Welcome to the great lakes databases of the historical collections of the great lakes at bowling green state university. When launched on june 8, 1958, she was the largest ship on north americas great lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. This document is the most complete and accurate list of losses of great lakes commercial vessels in existence, but it may be considered to be a work in progress, since my research continues. This webliography will provide different resources that will help high school and college students easily find sources for their research on great lakes shipwrecks. Autonomous technology can assist great lakes scientists. The great lakes make up 21% of the worlds fresh water source and have seen their share of shipwrecks. Please note that this database is limited to vessels lost above the head of the.
It was one of the first pages on the internet detailing information about great lakes shipwrecks. The underwater photographs and video provided by them is an invaluable aid in documenting this important historical shipwreck site. Great lakes shipwrecks open a window onto the past three centuries of exploration and commerce on the inland seas, and offer some of the bestpreserved examples of maritime history in the world. Thousands of vessels from canoes to car ferries and steamers to. Wisconsins great lakes shipwrecks, university of wisconsin sea grantwisconsin historical society. In addition to materials generated by private individuals. Fred is noted expert on the united states lifesaving service and is president. Information includes latitude and longitude of each feature along with brief historic and descriptive details. The database contains 65,000 shipwrecks located in north america. Throughout the 90s, brendon collected information on the shipwrecks of lake michigan, eventually building a comprehensive database of western great lakes shipwrecks. A fascinating and revealing source of information about shipwrecks in the seas surrounding britain and ireland. Accidents in rivers or connecting waters are referenced to the lake with which they connect. The database was compiled from the collection of c.
Great lakes shipwrecks the focus of annual show in holland. Not actually, but you have to consider these factors great plains accounting is in phasing out great plains software. Shipwrecks, of which there are plenty beneath the waters of the great lakes, hold an enduring allure for lovers of the past. Great plains accounting migration to microsoft great. Scuba diving on these vessels can feel like a haunted journey back in time.
The details of information for the great lakes maritime database include the vessels name along with any name changes, its owner, the ships captains, the place it was built, its size, what it was made of, its overall history and what happened to it eventually are included. New york state has over 2,000 miles of shoreline along the great lakes and. Our epub and pdfs may be read using free adobe digital editions software. We are pleased to share some of our underwater exploration in images and. Compiled from over 50 years of exhaustive research by gerald metzler, the database is in the process of being digitized from a collection of over 30,000 handwritten vessel records. What is unique in the site is the configuration of the twin screw engines.
There has been much discussion about the digital revolution at the turn of the present millennium. As of right now it is reasonable to upgrade to microsoft great plains 8. All links open in a new window open geospatial consortium. Noaas enc direct to gis provides free coastal gis data esri. New interactive map highlights great lakes shipwrecks and lore see more. Great lakes shipwreck research is proud to host the searchable database version of the david swayze great lakes shipwreck file. The national museum of the great lakes is excited to announce the release of a new book titled shipwrecks of lake ontario. The university of michigan press offers many titles as electronic books in epub, pdf, kindle, and audiobook formats. Great lakes shipwrecks maritime libguide libguides at. Each great lakes ship art print is produced using archival inks, ships within 48 hours, and comes with a 30day money back guarantee. Smith, a freighter that disappeared in the horrendous storm of 19.
Bradley was a selfunloading great lakes freighter that sank in a lake michigan storm on november 18, 1958. May 28, 2015 shipwreck discovery may lead to great lakes treasure. The underwater archaeological society of chicago uasc is a volunteer, notforprofit organization dedicated to the study and preservation of illinois shipwrecks and other. Besides delivering a critical blow to competitive balance of two highly. Not lost near the keweenaw, lake superior, as sometimes stated. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. More about hcgl resources bowling green state university. See more ideas about abandoned ships, shipwreck and boat. Craig rich is a veteran great lakes certified master scuba diver who began researching shipwrecks in the late 1980s and actively diving them in 1988. Shipwreck discovery may lead to great lakes treasure usa today.
An introduction to the epa region 5 environmental finance center at michigan technological university john a. Search the databases vessels ports people vessel database. Usa tornado maps gis database shapefile format gis database from 19502008. East region north atlantic ocean, center region great lakes and st. It returned to the great lakes for service in 1920. The great lakes phragmites collaborative glpc is a regional.
Our databases are an attempt to take existing data sources and reformat them for online access. Customize your great lakes ship print with hundreds of different frames and mats, if desired. Bathymetry of lake erie and lake saint clair has been compiled as a component of a noaa project to rescue great lakes lake floor geological and geophysical data and make it more. Much thanks for input goes to patrick folkes, richard palmer and dave swayze for sharing their research on many of these vessels. Famous shipwrecks of the great lakes northern maritime research. Note the cylinders are two different sizes which may indicate they were configured in a double expansion mode.
News get lost in 3d models of sunken great lakes ships. Ocean scientists embrace ocean standards abu dhabi coastal atlas african marine atlas alaska shorezone coastal mapping. Marine museum of the great lakes at kingston contains many shipwrecks on the great lakes. A webliography is a list of electronic documents or websites that relate to a particular subject, especially one used in a scholarly work. Changes at the turn of the century before, however, were probably far more dramatic to a person born in the middle of the 19th century than what we are seeing today. Preserving shipwrecks using 3d printing and 3d photogrammetry. The northern shipwrecks database project is a searchable cd database of more than 100,000 north american shipwrecks, that can be ordered.
Coast survey improves access to data on thousands of. Recently, the lakes clear waters have revealed some of them, including james mcbride and rising sun. The disabled schooner driver happened by and saved 12 of her crew who had taken to her yawl just before she went down. Support for this research is provided by sale of this information on a searchable freestanding cdrom. The main purpose of the historical collections of the great lakes hcgl is to collect, preserve, and make available, historical materials documenting the great lakes region and connecting. Northern maritime research more than 100,000 records in. Noaa improves access to wreck and obstruction data. Online databases for vessels, ports, and maritime personnel are available from thehe hcgls. With the fascinating stories behind their sinking, some of the shipwrecks in the great lakes are now popular diving destinations. L ake michigan is home to an estimated 1,500 shipwrecks, out of a total of 6,000 in the great lakes. Aug 17, 2016 1803 shipwreck discovered in great lakes. Shop for great lakes ship art prints from our community of independent artists and iconic brands. Great lakes shipwrecks edmund fitzgerald great lakes ships abandoned ships ghost ship upper peninsula lake erie interesting history.
A microcosm of an extraordinarily rich maritime heritage. Historical collections of the great lakes vessel database. The great lakes shipwrecks database is the work of william r. It was acquired but the us navy in 1918 for service in wwi. Le griffon, a 17thcenturybarque, is one of the greatest mysteries of the great lakes.
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