It wasn’t a charm, but the third time — a third sinking — is what finally sealed the fate of the Nucleus, a 19th-century Great Lakes sailing ship.
The 144-foot-long barquentine-type ship went down in eastern Lake Superior, off Vermillion Point on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, more than 153 years ago.
And now, wreck hunters announced Wednesday, Feb. 8, that they have found the Nucleus, surprisingly intact, just outside Whitefish Bay in 600 feet of water. It had been carrying iron ore from Marquette, Michigan, when it sank for good on Sept. 14, 1869.
