Atlantic Huron heads to Thunder Bay shipyard
CSL’s Atlantic Huron, laid up at Thunder Bay since April 3 with a controllable pitch propeller problems, headed to Heddle Shipyard Monday morning for repairs. She was taken in tow by tugs Miseford (1915), Glenada (1943), and Point Valour (1958) from Thunder Bay Tug Services.
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Searchers look for last of three ships that vanished in 1914
After finding the shipwrecks of the C.F. Curtis and the Selden E. Marvin, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has set its sights on finding the Annie M. Peterson, hoping to finally close the book on a more than 100-year-old mystery.
The ships disappeared on Lake Superior Nov. 18, 1914, during a bad storm.
“The combined losses of the C.F. Curtis, Selden E. Marvin and Annie M. Peterson have comprised one of the more tragic stories of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and certainly became one of the Lake Superior’s enduring mysteries,” GLSHS Executive Director Bruce Lynn said in a statement. “To locate the Curtis and Marvin in a space of two years has been amazing… Now we just have to find the Peterson!”
The search will not be easy, but the discovery of the two other vessels means some of the guesswork already done. The GLSHS team can use the locations and data it already collected to narrow the search window. Searchers think the Peterson is somewhere in the Grand Marais area but have reason to believe it is farther out than the other ships after debunking reports that its keel had run aground.
The Curtis discovered during the summer of 2021 and the Marvin was found in August 2022 in the stretch of water referred to as the Shipwreck Coast. There are a lot of sunken ships in the area of Lake Superior near Grand Marais, which is known to have extreme weather.
“There’s arguments over which area on the Great Lakes is the graveyard of the Great Lakes, although as we go into the 1900s, late 1900s, it clearly was the Grand Marais area,” Ric Mixter, GLSHS board member and maritime historian, said. “Here’s this stretch that now has four different life-saving or Coast Guard posts as we go into the 1930s. It clearly was a very dangerous area. And there’s still many of the ships that are still out there that we haven’t found. So it is a graveyard out there and sadly for this wreck, 28 people were killed in this storm.”
The crews of the Curtis, Marvin and Peterson set out late in the 1914 season when the weather typically tends to be bad and unpredictable — the famous November gales. The crews were ultimately caught in a massive gale that claimed the lives of everyone on board all three vessels.
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