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The SS ''Myron'' was a wooden steamship built in 1888. She spent her 31-year career as lumber hooker, towing schooner barges on the Great Lakes. She sank in 1919 in a Lake Superior November gale. All of her 17 crew members were killed but her captain survived. He was found drifting on wreckage near Ile Parisienne. Her tow, the ''Miztec'', survived. The ''Myron'' defied the adage that Lake Superior "seldom gives up her dead” when all 17 crewmembers were found frozen to death wearing their life jackets. Local residents chopped eight of the ''Myron'' sailors from the ice on the shore of Whitefish Bay and buried them at the Mission Hill Cemetery in Bay Mills Township, Michigan. The ''Myron's'' steering wheel, steam whistle, and many other artifacts were illegally removed from her wreck site in the 1980s by members of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society. Her artifacts are now the property of the State of Michigan and are on display as a loan to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The wreck of the ''Myron'' is protected as part of an underwater museum in the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve. ==History== The wooden steamer ''Myron'' was built as a lumber hooker in 1888 in Grand Haven, Michigan. She was originally named ''Mark Hopkins'' for the son of Captain Harris Baker, the first of a series of owners. Her name was changed to ''Myron'' in 1902.〔Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Vessel Datatbase.〕 The ''Myron'' suffered several major mishaps and rebuilds during her 31-year career on the Great Lakes. She was sunk by the ''Vanderbilt'' on 27 September 1895 in Hay Lake near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She was raised 19 October 1895 and rebuilt in Marine City, Michigan in 1896. She was released after she ran ashore on Long Point on Lake Erie in 1901. She was rebuilt again from 1903-1904 in Bay City, Michigan.〔Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Vessel Database.〕 The ''Myron'' averaged 12 trips a year at the end of her career 〔Stonehouse, p. 30.〕 and she sailed under the flag of O.W. Blodgett Lumber Company, considered the last of the big lumber companies on the Great Lakes.〔Oleszewski, p. 175.〕 As a lumber hooker, the ''Myron'' was designed to tow one or two barges and to carry her own deck load to pay her way. She towed big, old converted schooners stripped of their masts and running gear to carry large cargoes.〔Boyer, pp. 139 - 140.〕 The schooner barge ''Miztec'' was the last of the ''Myron's'' many consorts when she foundered.〔〔Gerred, p. 3.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Myron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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