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The Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association announced on Sept. 14, a day before the F.J. King sinking’s 139th anniversary, that they found the shipwreck in Lake Michigan

Researcher Brendon Baillod told PEOPLE the ship is “well-preserved” and “essentially a nautical time capsule, still containing all the articles she was lost with in 1886”

The F.J. King was a 144-foot, three-masted wooden schooner

In 1886, the captain of the F.J. King ordered his crew to abandon ship after a gale started causing the 144-foot, three-masted wooden schooner to sink in the middle of the night during its journey from Michigan to Chicago.

Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater. They survi

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