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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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New 3D Shipwreck Model Added: Unidentified Tug (WHS Tug 3), Lake Michigan
This site represents the second of several small wrecks discovered during a NOAA survey of the Milwaukee region and is the last of these newly found wrecks documented during our 2025 field season. While much about the vessel’s identity and history remains unknown, the wreck itself is exceptionally informative.
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🚨 **New Wreck Discovery — Lake Michigan (Milwaukee area)** 🚨
During the 2025 NOAA hydrographic/documentation survey in the Milwaukee area of Lake Michigan, a previously unidentified small steam-powered tug was documented — one of five newly identified small wrecks from the field season. 🔹 Type: Steam-powered tug (unidentified) 📏 Length: ~68 ft / 20.7 m ⚓ Condition: Highly collapsed (hull sides gone), but the machinery…
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