The Port Huron daily times headlines, "Terrible disaster! The propeller City of Detroit of the G. T. line is lost with all on board". The date was December 4, 1873. It was 19 years earlier, 1854, that another Detroit, the side wheel steamer Detroit, was to sink in a collision with the barque "Nucleus." Both "Detroits" were lost in the most dangerous area of the Great Lakes.....lake Huron's Saginaw Bay. It was 1994 when the side wheel steamer Detroit was discovered by the URA team. Fast forward four years to 1998, 125 years after the City of Detroit steamed into Great Lakes history she is seen for the first time as her image prints out on the side scan sonar. Share the excitement of shipwreck exploration, the mystery of the anchors and anchor chain, and the
shipwreck hunter's unique experience of confirming, after months of effort, the true identity of the once mighty steamer. |
