RE: [Paddlewise] Paddler Magazine

From: Chuck Holst <CHUCK_at_multitech.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:21:29 -0600
>>
I believe I saw a figure somewhere that estimated about 6,500 shipwrecks for
all
of the Great Lakes so over 2,000 might not be totally off the wall for
Superior.  For a figure of over 20,000 I think you would need to include
every
row boat and birch bark canoe that ever sank!
>>

The Shipwreck museum site says 6,000 for all the Great Lakes, but that
figure is obviously rounded off. One of the wrecks was a steamer my
great-great-grandfather intended to board on his migration west to
Minnesota. However, it failed to stop, which caused him to write a few
choice words in his diary. :-)

Chuck Holst
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