Shipwreck Whiskey: What’s Happening With The Westmoreland And Its High-Proof Treasures?
By Ticker Staff | Dec. 4, 2023
Few shipwrecks in the Great Lakes pique the fascination of armchair treasure hunters as much as the Westmoreland, a cargo-laden passenger steamer that met its doom in the icy waters of the Manitou Passage off the Leelanau Peninsula in 1854.
Bound for Mackinac Island on its last voyage of the year, with provisions (and possibly pay) for soldiers at Fort Mackinac, the 200-foot-long ship foundered in an early December snowstorm, taking on frigid water and sinking to the bottom of Lake Michigan with, legend has it, $20 million in gold coins (in today’s currency) and a priceless cache of rare whiskey. Overall, 17 people perished; another 17 survived.
The search ...
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