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11.03.2008

Shipwreck hunters find 1870 schooner

An underwater photo reveals the 'deadeyes' used to hold ropes on the Riverside, which left Kelleys Island on Friday, Oct. 13, 1893, with a cargo of stone bound for New York.
( DAVID VANZANDT )


The images are blurred shapes of dark and light and they have undefined lines and portions shaded out. But even to the untrained eye the photos that emerged from the sidescan sonar that pierced into the waters of Lake Erie were unmistakably boats.

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