&sq=&lang=&file=File:Miztec_-_3_masted.jpg) The schooner Miztec before she was converted to a barge
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Miztec |
| Owner | Marine Transit Co. (original owner) |
| Operator | O.W. Blodgett Lumber Company |
| Port of registry | Port Huron, Michigan |
| Builder | H. Ihnken & P. Lester |
| Completed | 1890 |
| Identification | Official No. US92166 |
| Fate | Foundered on May 13, 1921 off Vermilion Point on Lake Superior when in tow of the propeller Zillah. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Schooner; later converted to schooner barge |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 194 ft (59 m) |
| Beam | 34.5 ft (10.5 m) |
| Depth | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Installed power | Sail, later towed |
| Crew | 7 |
Miztec was built as a three-masted schooner in 1890. She was later converted to a schooner barge and served as a consort for lumber hookers on the Great Lakes. She escaped destruction in a severe 1919 storm that sank her longtime companion, the SS Myron, only to sink on the traditional day of bad luck, Friday the 13th in May 1921, with the loss of all hands. She came to rest on Lake Superior's bottom off Whitefish Point near the Myron.
The Miztec's wreck was illegally salvaged in the 1980s. Artifacts from the Miztec became the property of the State of Michigan after they were seized in a 1992 Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) raid on the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The State allows the museum to hold a triple sheave block and hook and a double sheave block and hook from the Miztec as a loan. Her wreck is now protected by the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve as part of an underwater museum.