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TELESCOPE Page 4 Rock of Ages Lighthouse built in 1907 and is located four miles south of Isle Royale. and American Lakehead cities of Thunder Bay and Duluth-Superior. More than $80,000 was poured into refitting and rebuilding the Lake Michigan passenger liner Puritan (1901) to convert her into the handsome George M. Cox in time for opening of the Century of Progress World's Fair Exposition at Chicago in 1933. Yet, she didn't last a week after re-christening, much less the first leg of her maiden voyage as the Cox before becoming wrecked on Rock of Ages Reef, just southwest of the lighthouse on May 27, 1933. The wreck of the George M. Cox lay re- latively undisturbed for nearly three decades following its 1933 loss. Then, growing popu- larity of scuba diving began to bring countless visitors to the Cox's remains. Today, it is the second most visited diving site in Isle Royale National Park, being surpassed only by the more intact wreck of the smaller passenger- package freighter America (1898), lost in June of 1928 in the North Gap of Washington Har- bor, just a few miles from Rock of Ages Light- house. Scattered wreckage of the Cox rests in two gullies on the rocky bottom separated by a shallow ridge. Wreckage depth varies from ten to ninety feet. The bow section is in about ten to twenty feet of water with portions scattered for nearly 250 feet. The stern wreck- age is in forty to ninety feet of water, easterly from the bow and about 150 feet away. This wreckage field is about 200 feet long. The Cox separated amidships, just forward of her four Scotch boilers, exposing two of them clearly as they rest on the bottom. The George M. Cox and the nine other major ships lost at Isle Royale between 1877 and 1947 are part of a continuing underwater archeological study. Underwater work is being conducted for Isle Royale National Park by the National Park Service's own Submerged Cultural Resources Unit based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Information gained through the survey is currently being used in pre- Dossin Museum Collection