Shipwreck hunters find 1870 schooner

A shipwreck was recently discovered in Lake Erie. The location of where it's been found isn't all that deep, actually, only 80ft, 25 miles north of Cleveland. More Specifically, it was found off Cleveland by the Cleveland Underwater Explorers and the Great Lakes Historical society. They believe it was the historical Plymouth, a tiny schooner of 133 feet, and it was pretty much fully in tact. The problem is, however, that most of the ship is buried under the muck of the lake, making it all the more difficult to pull it out of the water.

Exhibitionists have started this search in 2004 and thought it ended in October, 2007. On Friday October 13, exhibitionists set out for NYC. The information acquired there was that the schooner, which has three masts, hit a storm and everyone aboard, including the sea captain and his wife were thought dead.

The discovery of shipwrecks has more than one value, as Carrie Sowden, archaeological direct of the Peachman Lake Erie shipwreck Research Center said. It fills gaps in two fields: both in history and in archaeology.

Source: toledoblade.com