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Daniel Lyons: Another Great Lakes Wreck Brought Back Into View
There are days when the internet is mostly a dumpster fire with better lighting. Then there are days when a group like 3DShipwrecks.org quietly drops another outstanding piece of underwater documentation and reminds everyone what the web should be used for: sharing history, preserving wreck sites, and giving divers, researchers, and the public a way…
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🚢 3DShipwrecks — The America
A fresh model just went live on 3DShipwrecks.org, and this one’s a beauty — the 137 ft canal schooner America, resting off the Kewaunee, Wisconsin shoreline. Built in 1873 in Port Huron, MI, America was one of more than 40 vessels to carry that name in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As a canal…
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New 3D Model Release – Northerner
Just added another Wisconsin schooner to the 3DShipwrecks.org website and database. The Northerner was an 81-foot, two-masted schooner built in 1851 at Clayton, New York by John Oades. It’s a small vessel that doesn’t get much attention in Great Lakes history archives, but its story is still a fascinating one. In 1868, while loaded with…
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New 3D Model Released: The Atlanta Joins 3DShipwrecks.org
3D Shipwrecks just added a new shallow-water Wisconsin wreck to the 3DShipwrecks.org website and database: the Atlanta, a 200-foot wooden propeller built in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891. Operated by the Goodrich Transportation Company, Atlanta served routes between Chicago, Grand Haven, and Muskegon before expanding to additional ports along Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Atlanta’s story ended…
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3D Model of the Steam Barge J.M. Allmendinger (1883–1895)
3D Shipwrecks is proud to announce the release of our latest high-resolution photogrammetry model: the 104-foot steam barge J.M. Allmendinger, built in 1883 in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Designed for the bustling lumber trade of Lake Michigan, the Allmendinger spent her working life transporting timber between regional ports. Like many working vessels of the era, she…
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3DShipwrecks Adds New Milwaukee Car Ferry Models (2021 & 2025)
The next pair of models being added to the 3DShipwrecks.org website and database document one of the most popular deep dive sites in the Milwaukee area — the 338-foot steel rail car ferry Milwaukee. Originally built in 1902 by the American Shipbuilding Company as Manistique, Marquette & Northern No. 1, the vessel was designed to…
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CLUE Confirms Identification of the Bark Clough (1867)
We’re pleased to share news from Cleveland Underwater Explorers (CLUE) and the National Museum of the Great Lakes regarding the confirmed identification of the bark Clough, a stone-hauling sailing vessel built in Lorain, Ohio, in 1867 and lost just one year later. The identification was carried out through the dedicated work of CLUE divers and researchers,…
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The Sea Bird (1859) — 2025 Photogrammetry Model Release
Shotline Diving is proud to introduce the updated 2025 3D model of the Sidewheeler Sea Bird — a 192-foot wooden passenger steamer whose tragic loss off Waukegan, Illinois remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in southern Lake Michigan.
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50-Year Mystery Solved: SS Lac La Belle Located in Lake Michigan
After more than a century and a half resting silently beneath Lake Michigan, one of the lake’s most sought-after missing steamers has finally been found. Illinois shipwreck hunter and diver Paul Ehorn has located the wooden passenger steam propeller SS Lac La Belle, lost in a gale on October 14, 1872. The discovery comes nearly…
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SLD’s Bob Sherwood & Daniel Gildea Spotlight the Schooner-Barge Onondaga in Scuba News
Shotline Diving is proud to see our own Bob Sherwood and Daniel J. Gildea opening up a newly published wreck feature in Scuba News, highlighting the remarkable schooner-barge Onondaga.
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