Canada Global(Web News)A World War II-era shipwreck has been found hidden in the murky depths of Lake Superior after 84 years.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced Monday the discovery of the SS Arlington, a 244-foot bulk carrier steamship that went down in a violent storm on April 30, 1940, to its captain, Frederick “Tettibug” Burke.
Burke and his crew were transporting a full cargo of wheat from Thunder Bay to Owen Sound when the ship began to take on water, eventually going under the waves with all crew members on lifeboats . boarded and rescued by the SS Collingwood, a large freighter that was crossing Lake Superior at the same time. The
captain was the only person to go down with the ship and remains an enduring puzzle to local historians.
Thanks to the decade-long efforts of shipwreck researcher Dan Fountain, we now know the Arlington’s final resting place: just 56 kilometers north of Michigan’s Keweena Peninsula, under 600 feet of water, in Thunder Bay . Not far from the ship’s port of origin,
Fountain was studying remote sensing data in search of wreckage in Lake Superior when he encountered a “particularly deep anomaly.”