Remnants of sunken ship found in Lake Michigan

Michigan shipwreck hunters have found the remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1873 during a storm.

The Lizzie Throop was found in 280 feet of water along western Michigan’s coastline some 15 miles northwest of the city of South Haven, the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association announced this past week.

The vessel set sail from Muskegon, Michigan, on Oct. 16, 1873, on a lumber run to Chicago but sank after it began leaking during a squall, Valerie van Heest, the association’s director, said. Two of its six crewmen died when the two-masted, 86-foot-long schooner went down.