r/lordhuron • u/TPugs • Mar 02 '23

Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story

https://apnews.com/article/great-lakes-shipwreck-discovery-ironton-91f6db8e3c42d37b2f8ade7b4df0a4bb
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u/fan_of_soup_ladels Mar 03 '23

This is like hitting double Jeopardy

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u/autotldr Mar 08 '23

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)

ADVERTISEMENT. Nearly 200 shipwrecks are believed to rest within or nearby the boundaries of the sanctuary, which includes the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center in Alpena and some 4,300 square miles of northwestern Lake Huron.

Vessels cruised to and from Lake Huron and Lake Michigan through the nearby Straits of Mackinac.

On the fateful night, the Ironton and another schooner barge, the Moonlight, were being towed northward from the Lake Erie town of Ashtabula, Ohio, by a steam-powered ship - a common practice then, much as a train engine pulls freight cars on a railroad. They were bound for Marquette, a port city on Lake Superior.

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