The wooden bulk carrier Louisiana, built in 1887 by Morley and Hill in Marine City, Michigan, sailed into the Great Storm of 1913 while en route from Milwaukee to the ore docks of Escanaba, Michigan. Near midnight on November 8, 1913, she passed through Death's Door, but heavy seas and seventy mile-per-hour winds forced the captain to seek shelter in Washington Harbor, where the storm drove the vessel aground. The crisis worsened when the crew discovered a fire in the hold, and unable to extinguish it, the seventeen crew members abandoned ship in a lifeboat and reached shore safely, leaving Louisiana to fire and storm. The storm continued for four days, sinking twenty vessels, damaging seventy-one others, and killing two hundred forty-eight sailors. Much of Louisiana survived the wreck, however, and about 240 feet of bilge remains on the gradually sloping bottom while a 16-foot bow section rests on the shore 100 feet south of the wreck. Although the machinery was salvaged in 1920, artifacts including bearings, pipes, and sheet metal still surround the iron engine mount and broken cylinders in the stern.