A Door County, Wisconsin, rafter and shipwreck hunter has discovered a ship that went missing in Lake Michigan 138 years ago while en route to Escanaba.

In mid-July, Matt Olson, owner of Door County Adventure Rafting , said he was clicking through satellite images online when he noticed a dark shape in the water near Rowleys Bay, which is located at the tip of Wisconsin, across Green Bay from Menominee, Michigan.

A week later, he was in the area scouting for new rafting spots and confirmed the shape was, in fact, a long-lost wreck, the Wisconsin Historical Society said in an Aug. 22 news release.

The vessel was the second long-lost Great Lakes shipwreck recently discovered. The SS James Carruthers, which went down in a massive 1913 storm on Lake Huron, recently was found by wreck hu

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