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Michigan - Thunder Bay Underwater Preserve
Pewabic Wreck
Name:
Pewabic |
| Also
Known By: None |
Official
No.: None |
| Vessel
Type: Propeller, wood, passenger & package freight |
| Constructed: 1863, Peck & Masters, Cleveland |
| Specifications: 200 ft., 997 t. |
| Date
Lost: 1865, Aug 9 |
| Place
Lost: Off Thunder Bay, MI, 7 mi from Alpena |
| Body
of Water: Huron (Thunder Bay Preserve) |
| Type
of Loss: Collision |
| Lives
Lost:: 75 to 100 |
| Cargo: Copper ingots, native copper, misc |
| Notes: Collided almost bows-on with her sister ship METEOR in a passing blunder
and sank quickly. METEOR loitered to pick up survivors, even though
she was sinking herself. She has been mostly stripped of cargo and
fittings in a long succession of salvage dives, which have been regularly
made on her since at least 1880. One salvage project in 1897 used
dynamite and a diving bell to take thousands of pounds of pure copper
masses off her. |
| Location: 6.7 miles at 130 degrees from the Thunder Bay Island Lighthouse. |
| Loran: ? |
| Lat/Lon: ? |
| Depth: 140-165 Feet |
| Visibility: 15-25 Feet |
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