Posted by P.F on February 21, 19103 at 13:55:11:
In Reply to: Re: Unknown Isle Royale shipwreck posted by P.F on February 21, 19103 at 13:51:17:
: : I think the shot you are referring to is on the North Shore . . . unfortunately I am not exactly sure where. I have wondered about it for years and I think what you are looking at is a shot of the remains of either the Robert Fryer or perhaps the Saint Andrew, or something like that. The Fryer is on B Island of the Welcome Islands group. It has recieved a lot of salvage as the water is shallow and the wreck burned. More scrap metal salvaging, this could be a pre salvage photo of one of these wrecks. Unfortunately, the there is nothing to hint at the location in the photo.
: : Scott McWilliam
: :
: : : : That picture has fascinated me for years. However, I am fairly sure that it was not taken at Isle Royale. I've seen other versions of that image and it was attributed to a wreck at another location, but I don't recall which one. In any event, I believe the attribution to Isle Royale is in error.
: : : : : I beleive that it is in a classic history of Great Lakes Shipwrecks -Dana T. Bowen "Shipwrecks of the
: : : : : Lakes"-among photograph inserts is that of broken
: : : : : ship aground near Isle Royale of Lake Superior. No name
: : : : : is given-except the location and remark that it had been there many years. Any idea of identity?
: : : If copyright expired-place picture on Internet
: : : for other Websities/newsletters of Great Lakes Shipwrecks-prehaps there will be a responce
: Interesting-I checked the Swaye file-nothing on Fryer. The Mansfield file had a Fryer involved in a colislion but recovered. On the Great Lakes Bowling Green File-two vessels of the name-one was
: propeller steamer-dismantled in 1930. The other
: was a two masted schooner which was abanonded in
: 1933. Mayby lastname vessel
PS Credit-Historical Collections of the Great Lakes