Lake Erie shipwreck identified after 157 years

Lake Erie shipwreck identified after 157 years

CLEVELAND — Seventy feet down, on the dark, cold bottom of Lake Erie, the nameless wreck of a three-masted ship juts out of the sediment where she’s rested for more than a century, a hulk of rust, algae and muscle-encrusted wood half-swallowed by sand straining upward like a hand reaching from a shallow grave. She lies in the same spot where she crashed down after losing the fight of her life against gale-force winds and towering waves. Her rema…