Kalamazoo Gazette: Group seeks information about sunken schooner
What happened to the two-masted schooner that caused it to sink off the shores of South Haven more than 100 years ago? Which vessel might it be, of the many that sunk during those dangerous times? The Kalamazoo Gazette reports Ken Fagerman, vice president of the Southwest Michigan Underwater Preserve, said those are among the questions his group hopes to answer over the coming months as it examines artifacts and remains of the 80-by-20-foot wooden ship found covered in the sands at the bottom of Lake Michigan approximately five miles out from South Haven in the protected waters of the preserve. SWMUP has partnered with the South Haven Maritime Museum in the effort to identify and preserve the wreck. “Preservation is part of our ethic,” Fagerman said.
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