Largest shipwrecks on the Great Lakes Largest shipwrecks on the Great Lakes The Great Lakes are the largest bodies of freshwater in the world. They are five giant freshwater lakes, named Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Thousands of vessels have sailed on the lakes from the late 15th century to the present day. Thousands of ships sank on the lakes from 1679 when "LaSalle"'s wooden barque the "Le Griffon" was lost, to the 1975 sinking of the giant freighter "Edmund Fitzgerald" on Lake Superior. Many of these shipwrecks were never found, so the exact number of wrecks will never be
Lake Sebezhskoye Lake Sebezhskoye Sebezhskoye or Sebezh (Себежское) is a freshwater lake in the southwest of Pskov Oblast in Russia, close to the borders with Latvia and Belarus. It has a surface area of . The lake takes its name from Sebezh, a town sitting on a low-lying promontory jutting out into the lake. The lake surface lies above sea level. Its maximum depth is . In 1996, the lake basin with a cluster of similar lakes was designated the Sebezhsky National Park. The biggest tributary of the lake is the Cherneya River, which drains into Lake Sebezhskoye from the east. The