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Explorers discover wreckage of cargo ship that sank in Lake Superior storm more than 130 years ago (phys.org)

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[–] officermike 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's odd. Wikipedia lists the sinking as 1892.

Across the five Great Lakes. There's three recorded sinkings in 1940, and none are the Western Reserve. The Arlington was found February of last year. Maybe there was some context lost from one writer copying another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_the_Great_Lakes