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freeMB to Phys.orgEnglish · 4 months ago

Explorers discover wreckage of cargo ship that sank in Lake Superior storm more than 130 years ago

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Explorers discover wreckage of cargo ship that sank in Lake Superior storm more than 130 years ago

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freeMB to Phys.orgEnglish · 4 months ago
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Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes.
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  • HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Amazing find. I wonder if human remains are also preserved at that depth and temperature.

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    4 months ago

    Anyone else think it’s odd that the title says the ship sank more than 130 years ago but the article says the ship sank in 1940?

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      Looks like it’s only the captions that mention 1940, the rest of the article correctly states 1892 for the sinking, which lines up with the wiki

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Western_Reserve

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      Yeah, it’s odd. Wikipedia lists the sinking as 1892.

      Across the five Great Lakes. There’s three recorded sinkings in 1940, and none are the Western Reserve. The Arlington was found February of last year. Maybe there was some context lost from one writer copying another.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Great_Lakes

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