When the gales of September come early

The famous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald took place in November in Lake Superior, as Gordon Lightfoot's ballad attests.

But there are other wrecks in the Big Gitchee-Gumee, and shipwreck hunters just found one of them a couple of weeks ago, the freighter Hudson, lost in a Lake Superior September gale in 1901.  (Actually it wasn't early, it was mid-September, but I had to come up with a catchy title.)

Here's the somewhat interesting, somewhat tragic part:  the Hudson sank fast, so fast that it rammed hard into the Superior sediments bow first, so that the stern is still sticking about 20 feet up above the bottom.

Here's an article that shows this, in the sonar discovery image.

118 years after ship sank in Lake Superior gale, searchers locate wreck 825 feet beneath the surface

The shipwreck  hunters found the ship with the sonar, and then sent a camera down to confirm.  Here's a shot of the portholes.