![]() This was a pretty unique vessel, certainly.” ![]() “We knew right off the bat it wasn’t one of the French minesweepers we were looking for. It was coming up out of Detroit but it was a pretty common sight up here on Lake Superior, so we were thrilled when we were able to determine that’s what we were looking at,” Lynn said. “The Satellite in particular was a pretty common sight. The ships, apart from tugging other vessels, carried passengers and cargo at times. “They were considered to be beautiful ships when they were constructed,” Lynn said. In contrast to the mental picture the word 'tugboat' usually brings, these vessels were elaborate in appearance. “We had a good idea it was the Satellite because there were a number of these tugboats built for the same owner and they all had names that started with an ‘s.’ One was Sweetheart, one was Sweepstakes, one was Satellite and so forth,” Lynn said. ![]() waters about 48 kilometres, or 30 miles, northwest of Whitefish Point on June 21, 1879. “We were studying the footage that we obtained with our ROV that we put down and it took a while for us to discern which wreck it was.” “It was definitely exciting,” said Bruce Lynn, Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum executive director, speaking to SooToday Wednesday. Nearly two years later and after a great deal of research, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society has now announced it has verified that the wreck is that of the Satellite. The team was aboard the research vessel David Boyd when its remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, detected the lost vessel in August 2021. While searching the bottom of Lake Superior for the wrecks of two World War I era French minesweepers, a team from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found a much older, 19th century tugboat known as the Satellite. Historical researchers don’t make discoveries like this every day.
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