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Searchers discover shipwreck of schooner that sank in Lake Michigan almost 140 years ago

Citizen scientists and historians found the F.J. King shipwreck on June 28, ending a 139-year search.
Brendon Baillod led the team in locating the three-masted schooner, which sank during a gale in September 1886 while carrying iron ore from Escanaba to Chicago.
The Wisconsin Historical Society plans to nominate the site for the National Register of Historic Places.
Baillod remarked that the hull is remarkably intact, despite expectations that it would be broken apart by the weight of iron ore.

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