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| Date: | 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of algae and mussels covering the wood skeletal frame of the Advance, a schooner built in 1853 and sunk in 1885. Most of the frame i... |
| Date: | 06 22 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the starboard side of the bow of the schooner Home, the site of the collision damage that sank the ship. The sampson post and win... |
| Date: | 11 25 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a pile of automobiles and other pieces of cargo that sank with the Lakeland. In the foreground an upside down automobile is resti... |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of two automobile frames that were part of the final cargo of the steamer Lakeland A section of the ship's deck is in the background... |
| Date: | 08 09 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an automobile hanging off of the ruins of the steamer Lakeland. The wheels are still attached to the car, but most of the outward... |
| Date: | 06 10 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an underwater archeologist investigating the drift pins of the Louisiana. Algae and mussels are covering most of the wood of the ... |
| Date: | 06 10 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an archeologist surveying the frames of the Louisiana. Mussels and algae are growing on the wood of the ship. |
| Date: | 07 31 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the prop rudder and the port side propeller of the Milwaukee. The ship remains largely intact and upright, with both the propelle... |
| Date: | 08 03 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of an archeologist surveying the site of the sunken Milwaukee. The archeologist is swimming over a measuring tape, which runs from t... |
| Date: | 05 12 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the bow of the Pathfinder. Algae is growing along the sides, and clumps of sand are on the ship. A maritime archeologist is surve... |
| Date: | 08 15 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the capstan on the scow schooner Success. It is laying on its side partially buried in sand. A section of the starboard side of t... |
| Date: | 08 10 2008 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the wrecked scow schooner Silver Lake. The ship remains largely intact, but it is split in half where it was run over by the P... |
| Date: | 08 12 2018 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of abandoned fishing nets covering the port side bow of the schooner Island City. |
| Date: | 08 2007 |
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| Description: | View of the bottom, or bilge, of the Appomattox. The bilge was made entirely of wood, as on shipbuilder James Davidson’s other steamers. The heavy k... |
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| Description: | View of the remains of the centerboard trunk of the Lumberman at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | View of the bow and stern of the Lucerne at the bottom of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | View of an archaeologist documenting the capstan and windlass from the wreckage of the schooner Lucerne at the bottom of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | View of the steel cross-bracing of the wrecked Australasia at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Archaeologist documenting the wreckage of the Australasia at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
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| Description: | View of the paddle wheel of the wrecked steamer Niagara at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
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