{"id":118897,"date":"2026-02-20T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118897\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:38:10","slug":"archaeologists-find-158-year-old-shipwreck-at-bottom-of-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118897\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists find 158-year-old shipwreck at bottom of Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NMGL said the wreck site is associated with CLUE&#8217;s founder David VanZandt, who died in June 2024. According to his obituary, VanZandt suffered a medical emergency while diving at a then-newly discovered but unidentified wreck in Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p>Built in Lorain, Ohio, in 1867, Clough was a stone-hauling sailing vessel owned by Baxter Clough, a quarry owner from Amherst, Ohio. The 125-foot (38-metre) vessel was classified as a barque \u2014 a three-masted vessel rigged with square sails on the foremast and schooner sails on the main and mizzen masts.<\/p>\n<p>The ship sank in Lake Erie on September 15, 1868, just one year after her launch, while transporting stone for Great Lakes commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NMGL said the wreck site is associated with CLUE&#8217;s founder David VanZandt, who died in June 2024. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[55661,55658,136,138,137,260,7725,293,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-118897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-cleveland-underwater-explorers","9":"tag-clough","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-lake-erie","14":"tag-north-america","15":"tag-ohio","16":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}