PEWABIC

Other names : none

Official no. : none

Type at loss : propeller, wood, passenger & package freight

Build info : 1863, Peck & Masters, Cleveland

Specs : 200 ft., 997 t.

Date of loss : 1865, Aug 9

Place of loss : off Thunder Bay, MI, 7 mi from Alpena

Lake : Huron

Type of loss : collision

Loss of life : 75 to 100 (additionally, at least 10 divers have lost their
lives on her)

Carrying : copper ingots,native copper, misc

Detail : Collided almost bows-on with her sister ship METEOR in a
passing blunder and sank quickly. METEOR loitered to pick up
survivors, even though she was sinking herself.

She has been mostly stripped of cargo and fittings in a long
succession of salvage dives, which have been regularly made on her
since at least 1880. One salvage project in 1897 used dynamite and a
diving bell to take thousands of pounds of pure copper masses off
her.

Alpena, MI

Thunder Bay Divers