The Minnesota North Shore

Basalt cliffs and open water above Duluth

Lake Superior · Minnesota · United States

The North Shore runs from Duluth to the Canadian border with few harbours of refuge, and vessels caught by a northeaster had little room between the shipping lanes and the rock. Several of the ships lost here lie in shallow, clear water and are among the most visited wreck dives in the upper lakes.

Iron ore and grain moved out of Duluth and Two Harbors in enormous quantities, and tows of barges behind steam freighters were common. November gales repeatedly drove those tows onto the shore, and the wrecks that remain are protected within Minnesota's underwater preserves.

Records in These Waters

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A.C. Adams

AH-WR-1544

Minnesota waters of Lake Superior

About 1923 · Screw Tug

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Amboy

AH-WR-0818

Schroeder, Minnesota

1905 · Schooner-Barge

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Benjamin Noble

AH-WR-1494

Knife River, Minnesota

1914 · Bulk Freighter

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George Spencer

AH-WR-0817

Schroeder, Minnesota

1905 · Bulk Freighter

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Hesper

AH-WR-0813

Silver Bay, Minnesota

1905 · Bulk Freighter · 42 ft deep

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Lafayette

AH-WR-1519

Two Harbors, Minnesota

1905 · Bulk Freighter

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Madeira

AH-WR-0812

Split Rock Lighthouse, Minnesota

1905 · Schooner-Barge · 100 deep

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May Flower

AH-WR-1563

Off Duluth, Minnesota

1891 · Two-Masted Scow Schooner

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Onoko

AH-WR-0814

Knife Island, Minnesota

1915 · Bulk Freighter · 220 ft deep

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Robert Wallace

AH-WR-2002

Two Harbors, Minnesota

1902 · Bulk Freighter

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Samuel P. Ely

AH-WR-0815

Two Harbors, Minnesota

1896 · Schooner

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Thomas Wilson

AH-WR-0816

Duluth, Minnesota

1902 · Whaleback Freighter · 70 ft deep