Schooner Barge William Young

3D Model

The William Young was built as a schooner in 1863 and cut down into a barge later.She was carrying coal and being towed with 3 other ships when she began to take on water. She sank but the crew was rescued in the Straits of Mackinac that day in October 1891. The 139 foot long ship sits upright in 120 feet of water on the Lake Huron side of the bridge. She is the only ship in the Straits to still have a wooden wheel on the stern. There are many dead eyes stil on the ship and coal inside. The bow is crushed but a windless and wood stock anchor can still be seen. This model was shot in one dive and was 2220 images. It took about 45 minutes to scan the ship and do some of the inside portions and the mast laying parallel with the ship. – Becky Kagan Schott / Liquid Productions, Inc.