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| Subject: | | Re: The 'Holy Grail' of shipwrecks found in Lake Michigan |
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MJLehde
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Fri, Nov 6 2009, 10:33am
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That's because when the Price was found floating there was some who thought that there was another boat beneath her and the Regina was the most often named suspect. Others thought that there had been a collision between the two boats because there were reports that some of the bodies of the Price crewmen had drifted ashore wearing Regina life preservers. That's the sort of mystery that helps to connect the two boats in the public mind.
When the Price finally sank after the air trapped in her hull bled out there proved to be no other boats trapped below her and years later the wreck of the Regina was found near Salinac with her anchor run out. Even allowing for some drift by the Price after she capsized it isn't likely that the two met during the storm and it seems that the confusion with the life preservers was the result of honest mistakes on the part of the overwhelmed mortuary staffs that had to contend with hundreds of unexpected corpses washing up on the beaches.
The 1913 storm, or the Big Storm or Strom King as it was also known, was one of the most powerful blows to ever strike the Great Lakes and your right that several of the boats that went missing in that storm have never been found. I don't think that any of the missing are in Lake Michigan. Several boats were lost in Superior but Lake Huron was the real killing ground and hundreds died when some of the biggest and proudest lake boats went to the bottom, for the most part with all hands being lost.
Here is a painting you might like of the McGean, she was lost in Huron with no survivors and her wreck was located several years ago in deep water. Glad to meet another with an interest in the lakes and their history. For my part it's in my blood and whenever I'm not looking out on Superior, which for years now has been way too @#$% often I find that I'm wishing I was and yes, that includes the winter months. |
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