Explorers discovered the wreck of the steamship Milwaukee 'remarkably intact' after following clues from old newspaper clippings.
Nearly 140 years after a ship went down in Lake Michigan, explorers have discovered the wreck 'remarkably intact' after following clues from old newspaper clippings. The wreck of the steamship Milwaukee, which sank after colliding with another vessel in 1886, was found 360 feet below the water's surface, explorers from the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association said this weekend.
Under navigational rules, Captain Armstrong on the Milwaukee and Captain O'Day on the Hickox were supposed to slow down, steer right and sound their steam whistles.'But the old superstition that bad things happen in threes would haunt the captains of both ships that night,' the shipwreck association said.Neither captain ordered their ship to slow down, according to the report, because 'a thick fog rolled in rendering them both blind.
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