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Home›Green Marine›Michigan shipwreck group says it has found Hennipin
Green Marine

August 18, 2006 · about 20 years ago

Michigan shipwreck group says it has found Hennipin

A group dedicated to finding and documenting shipwrecks in Michigans waters said Friday it found the well-preserved remains of the historic vessel Hennepin and two other ships at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The 208-foot-long Hennepin was a steamer built in Milwaukee in 1888. It was later transforme

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A group dedicated to finding and documenting shipwrecks in Michigans waters said Friday it found the well-preserved remains of the historic vessel Hennepin and two other ships at the bottom of Lake Michigan.

The 208-foot-long Hennepin was a steamer built in Milwaukee in 1888. It was later transformed into the Great Lakes first self-unloader, a cargo ship with an A-shaped crane and a series of conveyors that made it faster and easier to unload its contents.

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