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List of shipwrecks in the Detroit-St. Clair River System

List of shipwrecks in Lake St. Clair, and the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ139564635 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Detroit–St. Clair River System refers to the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Erie. The system consists of the St. Clair River, which flows from Lake Huron into Lake St. Clair, and into Lake Erie via the Detroit River. It is bisected by the international border between Canada and the United States. As one of the busiest waterways in the world, numerous shipwrecks have occurred within it.

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See also

List of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes

List of Great Lakes shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places

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References

Bibliography

Kohl, Cris (2008). The Great Lakes Diving Guide (2nd ed.). West Chicago: Seawolf Communications.

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The public source identifies “List of shipwrecks in the Detroit-St. Clair River System” as list of shipwrecks in Lake St. Clair, and the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around List, shipwrecks and Detroit-St.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of shipwrecks in the Detroit-St. Clair River System” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.