The November 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably the most famous one of the Great Lakes, thanks to Gordon Lightfoot's hit ballad. But a new discovery is putting another ship - the Margaret A. Muir - on the map.
Forrest Brown, CNNThe Margaret A. Muir shipwreck was recently discovered in Lake Michigan off the coast of Algoma, Wisconsin in just 50 feet of water.The November 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably the most famous one of the Great Lakes, thanks to Gordon Lightfoot's hit ballad. But a new discovery is putting another ship - the Margaret A. Muir - on the map.
"One of the things that's important about this wreck is that it's opened up - we call it 'filet of schooner' - where the deck came off and then the sides opened up. And we can see the architectural construction details of how a 19th-century Great Lakes wooden vessel, a schooner, was built," he told"This is almost like somebody architecturally dismantled it to show you exactly how it was built," he said.
The Muir "was intended primarily for the Great Lakes grain trade, although it carried many diverse cargoes, frequenting all five Great Lakes over her 21-year career," according to the release. The loss of his faithful pooch was tough for Clow, though. He was reported as saying that "I would rather lose any sum of money than to have the brute perish as he did."The loss of the Muir was covered by major Great Lakes newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press and the Plain Dealer of Cleveland.
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