BAILEYS HARBOR — In another sign that Wisconsin maritime historians are in a golden period of discovery, a wooden schooner hidden beneath the depths of Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years has been ...
After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a cargo schooner that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline ...
Searchers have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank during a Lake Michigan storm almost 140 years ago. The F.J. King was a 144-foot three-masted schooner built in 1867. The ship carried ...
Picture the waters of Lake Michigan some 140 years ago, playing host to the F.J. King, a ship that would wreck and, consequently, sink in the unkind lake in September of 1886. Fast forward more than a ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This month marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. After enduring hurricane-force winds and waves of ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the ...
The F.J. King, a wooden schooner that sank in 1886, was discovered in Lake Michigan near Baileys Harbor. Citizen scientists participated in the search alongside the Wisconsin Underwater Archeological ...