Sport Wreck (Sanilac Shores Underwater Preserve)

The Sport, launched in 1873, was the first steel-hulled tug on the Great Lakes and sank in a December 1920 gale off Lexington; the crew washed ashore alive. Rediscovered in 1987, she rests upright with a slight starboard list in about 45 ft of water roughly three miles off Lexington in the Sanilac Shores Underwater Preserve, rising about 20 ft off the bottom with tools and relics scattered around the site. In 1992 she became the first Michigan shipwreck to receive its own Michigan Historical Marker, and her shallow depth makes her a favorite first Great Lakes wreck dive.