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JAN * FEB, 1984 Page 5 paration of a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the entire Isle Royale shipwreck population. This special "'collection" of shipwrecks are as a whole and individually nearly unique on Lake Supe- rior and on the entire Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system in their size, type, propulsion, age, use, condition, and accessibility. They are revealing significant marine architectural design features which evolved over more than a half century covering the range of vessels from wooden sidewheel steamers to triple expansion, steel-hulled bulk freight propellers, few of which are extant today. The wooden vessels in particular are showing features not always available in the ship drawings still around from before the turn-of- the-century. The Submerged Cultural Resource Team's underwater surveys will result in diver orienta- tion materials, interpretive data for Park Service staff, and a technical report on Great Lakes Ships and shipping history. Field work is expected to continue through the 1984 diving season at Isle Royale. In 1982 the archeologists worked on the Monarch (1890), Cumberland (1871), and Henry Chisholm (1880), while the 1983 season saw them on the George M. Cox (Puritan 1901), Glenlyon (William H. Gratwick 1893), America (1898), and Emperor (1901). The upcoming season should see work on the Algoma (1883), Ches- ter A. Congdon (Salt Lake City 1907), and the Kamloops (1924) which was only discovered in 1977. By working cooperatively with sport divers, the National Park Service hopes to improve diver ethics. Artifacts and ship parts are rapidly disappearing from many wrecks on the Great Lakes. A conscientous effort is needed among all divers to help preserve and conserve these unique shipwrecks so that future generations of wreck divers may also enjoy exploring them and underwater arche- ologists and anthropologists can glean more significant information about the ships and the crews who manned them. The history of the George M. Cox really be- gan 32 years before her loss and not at Isle Royale, but at Toledo, Ohio. The year was 1901, and Craig Shipbuilding Company was busily working to finish their Hull No. 82 for PURITAN bulkheaded for return trip from the Atlantic coast in 1920. 6 -- EORCEMGox = 60. @ sggers rT ' ' ---- S = Herman G. Runge Collection/Milwaukee Pub. Library GEORGE M. COX departing Manistee.