A ship that vanished along with all 14 crew members has been discovered 115 years later.
Spooky images have been taken of the Adella Shores more than a century after it vanished off Whitefish Point, Michigan in the US. The wreck was found 650ft below sea level around 40miles away from where it went missing.
Snaps were shared of the 735-tonne wooden steamship by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. It was built in Gibraltar, Michigan in 1894 by the Shores Lumber Company and was named after the owner's daughter. Chillingly, sailors thought the ship was cured after it failed to fulfil an age-old custom of smashing a bottle of wine on it because the family were anti-booze – and so decided to get Adella’s sister Bessie to break a bottle of water over it instead.
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Within 15 years the 195-foot boat sunk twice in shallow water, only bolstering the sailors’ fears that bad omens followed the ship. It set sail for Duluth, Minnesota, laden with a cargo of salt on April 29 1909, following in the wake of a larger steamship Daniel J. Morrell, which broke thick ice for it.
But strong winds waylaid the boat’s progress and soon it fell two miles behind, and then out of sight altogether. The Morrell’s captain thought it might have struck an ice floe, sinking quickly. Some debris washed up on shore in the following years, but no trace of the crew was found – until 2021. In the summer of that year, with the help of sonar technology, Director of Marine Operations with the society Darryl Ertel and his brother Dan finally located the wreckage.
Ertel said: "I pretty much knew that had to be the Adella Shores when I measured the length of it, because there were no other ships out there missing in that size range.
"As soon as I put the ROV down on it for the first time, I could see the design of the ship and I could match it right up to the Adella Shores."
Some 10,000 ships, many still undiscovered, are believed to have been lost in the Great Lakes.
Marine historian Fred Stonehouse added: "Not only is she a member of the 'Went Missing' club those ships on the Great Lakes that disappeared with all hands decades later, to be discovered. She still tells a very poignant and fascinating story.
"The folks that are out there actively hunting for shipwrecks like the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society are helping to answer that story.
"And they keep looking for the ones that are not yet told and not yet found. For that, they deserve the highest commendation."
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