![]() She is intact and a prime subject for underwater photographers. She was carrying a cargo of 488 tons of iron ore when she sunk in Munising Bay with a loss of three hands on October 15, 1870. Shipwreck research has proven her actual name, yet she is still known locally as the Dreadnaught, Arnold, or Granada. Please leave these remnants of the past for others to enjoy.īermuda ‐ The 150 foot wooden canal schooner is located in 20 feet of water in Grand Island’s Murray Bay. Shipwrecks lying on the surface are protected by federal law. State law prohibits the recovery, altering, or destruction of abandoned property which is in, on, under, or over the bottom lands of the Great Lakes, including those within a Great Lakes bottom lands preserve. The following wreck descrip‐ tions are sequential from west to east and include wrecks outside the boundaries of the park. It is the undisturbed quality of the park’s shipwrecks that has focused the attention of historians and sport divers here, and ultimately has resulted in creation by the State of Michigan the Alger Underwater Preserve to ensure their further preservation and enjoyment. They have also been relatively well preserved because they have been spared the human pressures of population and industry. ![]() The underwater resources of the Lakeshore are valuable because they are so representative of a wide range of vessels. ![]() Rock cliffs dominate much the shoreline, but the shore marks the boundary between two very different en‐ ronments, the land and the underwater world. The shipwrecks of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore area are nearly as well known as the rock fomations that give the area its name.
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