Researchers believe the vessel is the Caroline Eddy, a ship built during the Civil War and wrecked in 1880. “It was a sea like a mountain,” its captain recounted at the time.

Among the incidents: In October 1855, the ship suffered a collision in Lake Huron; in April 1868, it sprang a leak and lost cargo; and in September 1868, it sank and was raised, incurring a loss ...

A missing cargo ship was found largely intact after sinking in Lake Michigan over a ... While carrying coal in May 1880, the ship struck a reef in Lake Superior that tore out 10 feet from ...

Fire department divers from Evanston and other towns rescued a ‘victim’ from a sunken 1880s Lake Michigan ship in a training ...