| Depth: |
10-25 Feet | |
Condition: |
The vessel's remains
lie scattered on a gradually sloping, rocky bottom. |
on the southeast side of
Washington Harbor, with her
stern
lying in 18 feet of water and her
bow
almost reaching the surface (
LORAN
: 31975.7 / 47964.7;
GPS
:
N 45 o 23.98' / W 86 o 55.36'). A 16-foot section
of the bow lies exposed on the rocky beach, approximately
100 feet south of the site.
 |
|
An archaeologist
from the Wisconsin Historical Society
documents the remains of the Louisiana's bow. |
The
remaining 240 feet of the
bilge
lie on a gradually sloping rocky bottom, flanked
by charred and broken pieces of the vessel's sides, machinery,
sheet metal, and fastenings. At the bow, the hull is broken
off at the turn of the bilge, but in the stern it rises to
a height of approximately 13 feet. A large debris field of
the boat's fallen sides and machinery lies off the starboard
quarter, and much of this material extends into deeper water
to the northwest.
continued
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