Sudden fog, bad luck and the vessel’s own captain doomed the steamship Milwaukee, experts say. Now, 137 years later, the lost wreckage has been found, and it’s “remarkably intact.”
First put to work in 1868, the Milwaukee undertook many different jobs over its 18-year life, but its final voyage came in 1886, after dropping off a routine shipment of lumber, the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association said in a March 23 statement.
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