Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 16, 2022
SS Choctaw was a steel-hulled American freighter in service between 1892 and 1915 on the Great Lakes of North America. She was a so-called monitor vessel, containing elements of traditional lake freighters and the whaleback ships designed by Alexander McDougall. Choctaw was built in 1892 by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company in Cleveland, Ohio. On her regular route between Cleveland and the Michigan cities of Detroit, Escanaba, and Marquette, she carried coal upbound and iron ore downbound. In foggy conditions on July 11, 1915, Choctaw was on Lake Huron upbound for Marquette when she was rammed east of Presque Isle Light by the downbound Canadian canaller Wahcondah. Although Choctaw sank in only 17 minutes, her crew of 22 escaped, and was picked up by Wahcondah. The wreck was located on May 23, 2017, lying on her starboard side with the bow partly buried in the lake bottom. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2018. (Full article...)