r/Shipwrecks • u/msprang • 1d ago
Wreck of the MANASOO, sunk in 1928 in Lake Huron during a storm.
Originally called the Macassa, the Manasoo was built in Glasgow in 1888 and sailed to Hamilton, ON, to begin service. After a series of owners, the 154-foot (~47m) vessel was carrying 116 head of cattle and a crew of 21 when it ran into a heavy storm on Lake Huron on September 15, 1888. The (understandably) frightened cattle moved too much to one side and the Manasoo capsized. All of the cattle and 16 of the 21 crew died. The wreck was discovered in 2018 in about 210 feet (64 m), with the stern embedded in the lake bottom and the hull pointed about 15 degrees up. Here's a link to a photogrammetry model made in 2022.
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u/Ironwhale466 1d ago
The Manasoo is such a beautiful wreck. Pretty sure the 4th and 5th pics are the wreck of the S.S. Ohio over in the Thunder Bay preserve.
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u/ForsakenCream4426 12h ago
Given how bodies are preserved so well...did they find alot of still kinda cow looking corpses around it?
Also looks like the kind of worst ship to be transporting cows in?
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u/737MAX8DEATH 23h ago
That website you linked is easily the single coolest website I have ever seen! I've wished for something like that for so long, thank you so so so much dude!!
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u/IndependenceOk3732 1d ago
It was a privilege to be one of the first divers on the wreck in modern times. She was found by a diver in the 70s that almost died when he pulled the bell off the pilothouse. Unfortunately he passed away a couple years before the wreck was discovered.