- Dates
- 2019-09-25 – 2019-09
- Kind
- Discovery
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimearchaeologyhistorycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In September 2019, a Beaver Island Forum exchange reported that divers had found two schooner wrecks, identified in the discussion as the St. Andrews and Peshtigo, off the island’s south end. The thread described the discovery as having occurred earlier that summer.
Evidence limits
This record preserves a local discovery claim, not a confirmed archaeological identification. No coordinates, survey, wreck registry, or independent source is held here to establish the vessels’ identities or exact location.
Sources
- A forum exchange attributed a summer discovery to Bernie Hellstrom and crew and named the wrecks as the St. Andrews and Peshtigo, reportedly lying side by side off Beaver Island’s south end. The thread contains no survey report, coordinates, vessel-identification study, state registry entry, or independent contemporary news account; it is preserved as a discovery report, not an established wreck identification.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 14 · t014704
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Forum reports a possible discovery of the St. Andrews and Peshtigo wrecks near Beaver Island, 2019”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-andrews-peshtigo-wrecks-reported-discovered-2019/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Two new shipwrecks found,” September 25–29, 2019..
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