“The Last of the Six Sisters”

Tucked in the North Channel of Lake Huron beneath the cold, grey veil of the Great Lakes lies the SS North Wind—a steel-hulled package freighter built in 1888, and the final survivor of a once-mighty fleet of six near-identical sisters.

At over 312 feet long, she was a workhorse of industrial America—powered by a triple-expansion steam engine, hauling freight through fog and storm with 1,200 horsepower of coal-fired muscle.

By the 1920s, the others were gone: wrecked, sold, or rusting in saltwater exile. But North Wind remained. A ghost of the iron age. And now? Her final fate a must dive… but divers and researchers believe she may yet be resting somewhere in the depths, waiting for rediscovery.

Why she’s a MUST DIVE:

– One of the earliest steel freighters on the Lakes

– A direct link to the industrial freight era

– Historically unique: the last of her class

Know the Lakes. Dive their legends.

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