The wreckage of a rare boat — one of the last of its kind to be located — has been identified at the bottom of Lake Superior in Michigan ... late 19th century, the whaleback had an unusual ...

DETROIT — More than 100 years after a storm sank a 292-foot Whaleback ship, it has been found in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society discovered the Whaleback vessel ...

On October 13, 1902, a steamship full of iron ore was towing a uniquely shaped barge across Lake Superior ... looking at the historic 292-foot whaleback. A view of Barge 129 while docked Courtesy ...

The 32,000-square-mile Lake Superior—the largest of the Great ... the Great Lakes Shipwreck Society include Barge 129, a rare “whaleback” ship that disappeared in 1902, and the Atlanta ...

Lake Superior is historically home to some of the ... happened right after the turn of the century in 1902. And it was a whaleback. And that was a special kind of boat. And it got sunk right ...

Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center director ... vessel yard are a glass mercury thermometer from the Thomas Wilson, a whaleback that sank just outside Duluth Harbor in 1902.

"The Colgate is a famous Lake Erie shipwreck, but it's a whaleback built here in Superior," Frew said. "So it's a Superior/Duluth story as well." Shelley Nelson can be reached by e-mail snelson ...

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) said it found the Whaleback vessel, Barge 129, in Lake Superior 35 miles off Vermilion Point in 650 feet of water. GLSHS said Barge 129 sank on ...

Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society Barge 129 sank to the bottom of Michigan's Lake ... intact whaleback still in existence, the SS Meteor, which is moored as a museum exhibit in Superior ...