State officials announced on Friday that fishing in Wisconsin in the fog this week discovered the wreckage of the abandoned drip boat in the waters of Lake Michigan for more than a century.
The historic marine archaeologist Tamara Thomson said that the community confirmed that Christopher Thous found the GC Ames wreckage. She said in a message to Associated Press that Thus was hunting in Lake Michigan off the city of Manitok in blurry conditions on Tuesday when the debris noticed nine feet of water off cutting water.
Community said According to the book “Green Bay Workhorses: The Nau Tug Line”, Burger Burger Bubbuilding Companyo in Manitowoc built JC Ames in 1881 to help move wood. Tug was one of the largest and strongest in the big lakes, with a 670 hp engine.
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The deer served multiple purposes that go beyond wood, including transporting rail cars. Thomson said that in the end he fell in a bad condition and was exposed in 1923, as this practice was when the ships lived their benefit.
Thomson said that the ship was buried in the sand at the bottom of the lake for decades before the storms this winter, which apparently revealed it. She said that the lack of a mussel attached to the ship indicates that it was not recently revealed.
Historians are racing To determine the location of the shipwrecks and The planes that fell In the Great Lakes before destroying the mussels. Quagga has become dominant gas species In the lower lakes over the past thirty years, they connect themselves to wooden ships and planes sunken in very thick layers that eventually crush debris.
“These types of discoveries are very exciting because they allow a piece of missing history to appear. He sat there for more than a hundred years and then returned to our radar completely by chance,” Tomsen said in a statement. “We are grateful because Chris Thous noticed the debris and informed him so that we could share this story with the societies of Wisconsin to which this date belongs.”
In September, Bahraini historians Brendon Bilod and Bob Jake announced that they had discovered John Evenson wreckageThe diameter tractor was lost in June 1895 while helping a cargo ship while entering the Stepion Bay Ship Channel in Lake Michigan. The historian also found a sailboat Margaret a. Muir in June 2024.
In March 2024, the wreckage of the Milwoki ship, which drowned after colliding with another ship in 1886, was 360 feet were found below the surface of the water In Lake Michigan.
This discovery came just a few months after the man and his daughter I found the vessel remains She sank in Lake Michigan 15 years before Milwaukee, in 1871.
Experts appreciate More than 6000 ships They went in the Great Lakes since the late sixteenth century.
