Trotman Folding Stock Anchor 1892 - Duluth, MN
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lenron
N 46° 46.819 W 092° 05.489
15T E 569352 N 5181152
Trotman Folding Stock Anchor 1892 located in Canal Park, Duluth, MN.
Waymark Code: WM8Z66
Location: Minnesota, United States
Date Posted: 06/03/2010
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Anchor is located among many nautical and maritime displays and artifacts in Canal Park, Duluth MN. Canal park is a must see place, located on the shores of Lake Superior and the Port of Duluth. Visitors can observe, up close, ships from over the world enter and leave the port. Also at the park is a boardwalk, paved biking trail, restaurants, vendors, Aerial Lift Bridge, tugboat, benches, Lake Superior Maritime Marine Museum and so much more.
The bronze or brass ground plate reads:
Trotman Folding Stock Anchor
1892
Conventional Ship's Anchor used
from about 1870 to 1910, from the whaleback
steamer Thomas Wilson, sunk about a half mile
outside Duluth piers. Recovered in 1975 by
the U.S.C.G. cutter Woodrush with divers
Elmer Engman, Dave Anderson, Don Goman
and Paul Von Goertz
The anchor weighs a ton and a half
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