Discovery of the steamship Milwaukee shipwreck in Lake Michigan

[@Chazd1949]

Thank-you for posting this. It was so fascinating and beautifully narrated. I have a special fondness for these kinds of stories because my paternal ancestors began sailing the lakes in the 1880s when my G-Grt grandfather,Captain Peter Ekbert came to Port Huron from Sweden, in 1881. His son, Arthur Ekbert was one of the crewmen on the John McGean that went down in the great storm of 1913. A grt grandfather who married Capt Ekbert's daughter, was born in 1880 in Montague Michigan. He began sailing the lakes in 1896, became a captain around 1912 and continued until he retired in 1955. I was blessed to have known him well since he lived to be 96 years old. My only regret is that I didn't make the effort to sail at least one season on the lakes, just so I could maintain the tradition for another generation.

[@mfsperring]

Thanks for the footage and the information.

[@rand49er]

I often wondered how these ships could collide with each other in such a large area as one of the Great Lakes until you mentioned that there was a lot of traffic. I hadn't realized that. Thanks.

[@pontiacbubba]

My friend a few years back was cleaning his beach in front of his house on Lake Erie. He hit a timber which appeared to hand hewn. He contacted the local University, they came out and did an archaeological dig on it. It turned out to a schooner that beached there and was an unknown wreck at the time.

[@abegiesbrecht1148]

This was worth the watch

[@MWMTex]

Do you have a go fund me or a site for donations? Appreciate what you doing and would like to help you guys our. Always been fascinated by this type history.

[@sparkplug5481]

Excellent

[@sonyarogersmissmagic8587]

Very cool.

[@robertsanders6463]

Thank you!

[@phillipbohl5709]

In the 60s we found a shipwreck at our cottage in Oscoda under our beach and recovered the hatch with a large metal ring on it. had to stop digging because of hole filling with water.

[@lowandslow3939]

By removing upper decks, it was not converted into a steamship. It was converted from a passenger steamship into a cargo steam ship. If it didn’t have masts and sails in its early life, it was always a steamship. Cool story, thank you, from a former Chief Engineer with twenty years at sea.

[@Cletrac305]

Interesting that they were supposed to pass to the right but the rudder is set to steer left. Mabey done after the collision. BTW, left and right are the correct terms for lakes boats. They generally are all called boats regardless of size and do not use nautical terms like port and starboard. They travel in MPH, not knots, and the crew eats from the kitchen, not a galley! Great work! Keep em coming.

[@markmarsh27]

Her husband should mass-produce the little submersible he built for this exploration: GREAT little machine!

[@williammiller2750]

They may not have carried treasure. However, they are a treasure in their own history.

[@markb1764]

Ironically in good weather they would be hard pressed to make a collision happen

[@mikeyboy3054]

The Great Lakes are serious business.

[@miapdx503]

To me, there's something sacred about a shipwreck.

[@williamcarl4200]

Sad to witness the explosion of the mussel population on these otherwise pristine wrecks.

[@chrisjeffries2322]

💋

[@frankkrupinski1764]

Isit true that there’s a ship that sank in the Great Lakes along time ago carrying silver worth more then a billion in today’s market

[@richardwarfordjr.5622]

Our lakes swallow ships alive 😂