Is the Rescue found?

From staff reports
State police divers searching for the body of a man who drowned in Big Glen Lake last summer may have instead solved one of the area’s great mysteries — the location of Ralph Dorsey’s passenger steamboat, Rescue, which he sank intentionally in 1914.


Divers located a 32 x 10-foot boat in 124 feet of water in the middle of the lake on August 17 and will reportedly return to it on the weekend of August 26. There are still no signs of the drown man’s body.
The Rescue was the subject of a community-led search in May of 2003 that was as technological as it was folkloric. Local resident Chuck Olsen brought a team of professional scientists from the University of Michigan and their hi-tech underwater robot, the M-ROVER, which combed the depths of Glen Lake in vain for two days, while historians, fishermen and old-timers gathered in two flotillas of boats and debated why Dorsey sank his boat, and where. Local students from Glen Lake and The Leelanau School produced a documentary of the unsuccessful search.
Now they may have more to talk about. To read the Glen Arbor Sun’s coverage of Captain Ralph Dorsey and the 2003 search for the Rescue, please visit us on the web at www.glenarborsun.com/archives/2003/06/dorseys_sunken.html.