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Joe Hernandez

Shipwreck hunters discover a schooner's 142-year-old remains in Lake Michigan

This July 2023 photo provided by State Historical Society of Wisconsin shows the schooner Trinidad's wheel. (Tamara Thomsen/AP)

A schooner called the Trinidad was built in 1867 with the purpose of hauling grain, coal and iron between the Midwest and the Northeast. But a lack of upkeep doomed the vessel, which sank in Lake Michigan during its final voyage in 1881.

The wreck of the Trinidad has now been located for the first time since it went down nearly a century and a half ago.

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