article_snippet: While the shipwreck of The SS William B. Davock was finally found, upside down, by  divers in 1972, an investigation into why the shipwreck of the SS William B. Davock sank was deemed all but impossible, due to the murkiness of the waterthe water.
article_snippet: The SS William B. Davock, a coal freighter built in 1907, sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan on the bottom of Lake Michigan way to Chicago on November 11, 1940, during a ferocious storm.
article_snippet: During a dive last fall, the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association (MSRA), a nonprofit underwater archaeological organization were able to capture the first-ever footage of the wreck, determining a rudder the broke in the storm struck the propeller (pictured) Taking coal to Chicago, the Davock went down five miles out from Little Sable Point between Ludington, Michigan and Pentwater, Michigan.
article_snippet: The shipwreck of the Davockfive miles out from Little Sable Point between Ludington, Michigan and Pentwater, Michigan.
article_snippet: The shipwreck of the Davock five miles out from Little Sable Point between Ludington, Michigan and Pentwater, Michigan was en route to Chicago when The shipwreck of the Davock five miles out from Little Sable Point between Ludington, Michigan and Pentwater, Michigan sank .
article_snippet: the Davock was a lake freighter that was constructed in 1907 by Great Lakes Engineering Works in St. Clair, Minnesota .
highlights_snippet: The SS William B. Davock sank 210 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan, landing upside down .
  
highlights_snippet: The SS William B. Davock landing and the murkiness of the water made investigations difficult .
  
highlights_snippet: Divers were able to get The SS William B. Davock last fall and take footage .
  
highlights_snippet: Divers determined The SS William B. Davock broke in a storm and snapped the propeller .
  