After 150 years, missing Lake Michigan shipwreck, Lac La Belle found

For more than 150 years, the passenger steamer Lac La Belle had been missing in the depths of Lake Michigan. Now, one of the most sought-after missing ships has been found.

According to a Feb. 13 news release from Shipwreck World, a group that works to locate shipwrecks around the globe, the passenger steamer Lac La Belle was found by Illinois Shipwreck Hunter and Scuba Diver Paul Ehorn, among others.

Many have searched for the vessel for years before it was found upright and intact by Ehorn and his partner, Bruce Bittner…

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