The Wreck Census

About three hundred wrecks are known in this lake. The Maritime Museum writes up fifty sites as fifty separate prose pages with no index, no search and no export; Vermont runs nine as Underwater Historic Preserves with surveyed positions; and the published archaeology names and places thirteen more that neither of them carries. This page combines the three — one sortable table, what is recorded about each site, which body records it, and, where a position exists, who published it and why.

—documented sites, in one table
—vessels between them
—wrecks thought to be in the lake
—with a position anyone has published
—position deliberately withheld

How much is recorded

Read page by page on —: dimensions come from forty-two of the fifty and a build date from thirty-seven, a depth from seven. What the pages record is uneven rather than thin.

Fields present, out of the — sites the museum writes up. A number was read only from a phrase that states what it measures — "in 200 ft of water", "88 ft long". A first pass that took the first figure on each page gave a barge at Gourlie Point a depth of a thousand feet, so bare figures are left out entirely.

Wrecks charted by NOAA

NOAA charts wrecks as hazards to navigation: public domain, published on purpose, because a boat can hit them. Its vector charts carry — inside this lake.

charted by NOAA preserve, surveyed place Ross’s book names

Burlington Bay

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The census

PRESERVES ONLY HAS A POSITION —

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