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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 02 2004 |
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| Description: | View of the bow and forward bulkhead of the wrecked steam screw Sevona at the bottom of Lake Superior. |
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| Description: | The Pretoria was slowly torn apart by the storm while anchored. Lying upside down on top of the bilge near Pretoria's bow, the heavy anchor windlass remain... |
| Date: | 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of pieces of the schooner Advance laying on the haul of the ship at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of a pile of broken automobiles resting in the sunken Lakeland. |
| Date: | 07 2010 |
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| Description: | Underwater overhead view of the steamer Lakeland" sitting on the floor of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 08 19 2014 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the schooner Pathfinder. Algae is growing on the wood of the ship. A tape measure has been placed along the left side. |
| 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: | 01 21 2011 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the windlass (on the bow of the ship) of the Northerner, which is covered by algae and mussels. |
| 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: | 2005 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the port side of the wreck of the schooner Home. |
| Date: | 06 02 2015 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the deck of the schooner Home, taken from the bow. |
| Date: | 11 27 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of the front end of a Kissel car from 1924. It is resting within the steamer Lakeland, which sank in Lake Michigan. |
| 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: | 01 21 2011 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of five maritime archeologists measuring and surveying the bow of the sunken Northerner. Much of the ship appears intact, except the... |
| 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: | 11 26 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of metal frames and rubber wheels of automobiles laying in a pile on top of each other within the sunken Lakeland. Part of the upper... |
| Date: | 08 05 2013 |
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| Description: | Underwater view of two archeologists surveying a portion of the Lakeland. The divers are using cameras, with three or four strobes attached by an ar... |
| 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... |
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