Lake Name: Lake Huron
Shipwreck Name: Cornelia B. Windiate
Shipwreck Pictures

Vessel Type: Three-Masted Schooner
Location: Presque Isle, MI
Vessel Build Info: 1873, Thos. Windiate, Manitowoc, WI
Shipwreck Specs: 136x26x12, 322 t.
Official Number: 12537
Names Other: CORNELIA WINDIATE

Sinking Detail
Bound Milwaukee for Buffalo, she became trapped in ice, cut and sunk. She was not reported as having passed the Straits and her spars were reported sticking out of the water near the Fox Islands, so she was thought for over 100 year to have been lost in Lake Michigan. She was discovered on the bottom of Lake Huron in 1987, in excellent condition.
Loss Date: 12/10/1875
Loss Place: off Middle Isl. near Rogers City, MI
Loss Life: 9 of 9
Loss Reason: Storm
Vessel Cargo: Wheat

Shipwreck Description
Found by Paul Ehorn the same morning in May 1986, that his colleague John Steele, found the Norman near by, the three masted schooner (138’x26’x11′), built at Manitowoc WI in 1874. Disappeared with all hands after leaving Milwaukee for Buffalo with a cargo of wheat. She sits upright and very intact in 180 feet of water.

Dive Type: Technical
Depth Deck(ft): 159 ft
Depth Bottom(ft): 180 ft
Depth Deck(m): 48 m
Depth Bottom(m): 55 m

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