Shotline Diving Wreck Profile
- Name: Regulator
- Type: Wooden Schooner
- Year Built: 1866
- Builder:
- Dimensions:
- Registered Tonnage:
- Location: Lake Huron (approximate; specific position not documented)
Wreck Location Map
Vessel Type
The Regulator is listed as a wooden schooner, typical of mid-19th century merchant vessels plying the Great Lakes. Loaded with general merchandise, she would likely have been a fore-and-aft rigged vessel operating on coastal routes.
Description
No known archaeological survey, sidescan image, or dive report exists for the wreck of Regulator. Her remains have not been positively identified or located, and no modern documentation has been published.
History
- According to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Files, Regulator “foundered in a storm” on 16 November 1883, while carrying general merchandise on Lake Huron. No further details are included beyond this brief note (Great Lakes Shipwreck Files, Wikipedia, Great Lakes Shipwreck Files, Wikipedia).
- No registry number, owner name, crew list, or cargo manifest has been located in publicly available sources tied to this incident.
Significant Incidents
- Recorded as a total loss by storm with no survivors or salvage recorded. The term “foundered” indicates the vessel sank, presumably rapidly, due to weather conditions.
Final Disposition
- No modern identification: The wreck has not been rediscovered or surveyed by divers, sonar teams, or maritime archaeologists.
Current Condition & Accessibility
- No Notices to Mariners or official navigational hazard bulletins reference the wreck of Regulator. The event appears not to have generated contemporary public navigational advisories in accessible records.
Resources & Links
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Regulator (c. 1866–1883) represents a typical example of a small wooden mercantile schooner lost to a winter storm on Lake Huron. Surviving documentation is confined to a single index entry noting the date (16 Nov 1883), cargo (general merchandise), and loss by storm—notable both for the event and for the absence of further detail. No modern wreck identification, dive documentation, or registry data is currently connected to her.
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