{"id":66422,"date":"2026-02-15T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/searchers-find-missing-ship-in-lake-michigan-over-150-years-after-it-sunk\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:05:02","slug":"searchers-find-missing-ship-in-lake-michigan-over-150-years-after-it-sunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/searchers-find-missing-ship-in-lake-michigan-over-150-years-after-it-sunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Searchers find missing ship in Lake Michigan, over 150 years after it sunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shipwreck hunter found Lac La Belle steamer, one of \u2018most sought-after missing ships\u2019, after nearly 60-year search<\/p>\n<p>Searchers recently discovered the wreck of one of the \u201cmost sought-after missing ships\u201d in Lake Michigan, that had sunk to the bottom of the lake over 150 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A shipwreck hunter and scuba diver named Paul Ehorn made the discovery after having searched for the Lac La Belle passenger steamer for nearly 60 years. Shipwreck World, a group that works to locate shipwrecks around the globe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipwreckworld.com\/articles\/pioneer-wreckhunter-finds-lake-michigan-passenger-steamer-lost-for-130-years\">announced on Friday<\/a> that the team led by Ehorn found the wreck about 20 miles (32km) offshore between Racine and Kenosha, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/15\/missing-ship-lac-la-belle-found-wisconsin-150-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipwreck hunter found Lac La Belle steamer, one of \u2018most sought-after missing ships\u2019, after nearly 60-year search Searchers recently discovered the wreck of one of the \u201cmost sought-after missing ships\u201d in Lake Michigan, that had sunk to the bottom of the lake over 150 years ago. A shipwreck hunter and scuba diver named Paul Ehorn &#8230; <a title=\"Searchers find missing ship in Lake Michigan, over 150 years after it sunk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/searchers-find-missing-ship-in-lake-michigan-over-150-years-after-it-sunk\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Searchers find missing ship in Lake Michigan, over 150 years after it sunk\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}