Lake Superior, It says sonever give up on her death—unless you look real, Actually hard. With enough digging (or swimming), it looks like some ships won’t be buried forever. At least, that’s what the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society is trying to prove, and so far it has proven Gordon Lightfoot wrong when he found two 109-year-old wrecks at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Next, the Guild intends to find a third person.
In case you lost it:
The ships were the CF Curtis and the Selden S Marvin, two log ships that sank together in 1914. At the time, Curtis was towing Marvin from a port in Michigan to New York, along with a third ship – the Annie Mr. Peterson. All three sank in November of that year, claiming the lives of all 28 sailors on board.
With the first two ships located and identified, the Society now aims to locate Peterson. Given that Curtis and Marvin only put “a few miles” apart, that last ship may not be far away — sitting on Superior’s bed, just waiting to be tracked by the Association’s underwater sonar systems.
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Underwater video shows the C.F. Curtis as it now sits, rusted and rotting after a century beneath the waves. But, even after all that time, it’s still recognizable — down to the name printed on the boat’s side. Even some gauges within the ship almost look readable.
The Society hopes that finding the Peterson will help conclusively tell the story of what happened that November night. At least, tell a more descriptive version than “the witch of November came stealing.”
