Collecting Imagery on the F.T. Barney

Date: June 6, 2007
Entry by: Tane Casserley, Maritime Archaeologist, Maritime Heritage Program (NMSP)

As part of the sanctuary's ongoing diving exploration in and around Thunder Bay, Russ
Green (TBNMS), Joe Hoyt (ECU), and Tane Casserley (NMSP-MHP) had the opportunity to conduct a reconnaissance dive on an intact schooner just north of the current TBNMS boundaries. The wreck site is the two-masted schooner F.T. Barney which was built in 1850 and sank in 1874, and lies approximately four miles off Rogers City, Michigan. The shipwreck is in amazingly pristine condition sitting completely upright and intact. The information and images captured on this dive will provide baseline documentation for this excellent example of pre-Civil War Great Lakes ship construction. I'll let the images speak for themselves.