Searchers have found a long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end. The 191-foot cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking both. The Ironton’s captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat, but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship. Only two crewmen survived. The gravesite long eluded shipwreck hunters. Officials with Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan, said Wednesday that the mystery has been solved. The Associated Press obtained details of the discovery ahead of the announcement. A team of historians, underwater archaeologists and technicians located the wreckage in 2019 and deployed remotely controlled cameras to scan and document it. The sanctuary plans to reveal the location in coming months and is considering placing a mooring buoy at the site. Officials have kept the find secret to prevent divers from disturbing the site before video and photo documentation is finished. Video footage shows the Ironton sitting upright on the lake bottom, hundreds of feet down -- preserved by the cold, fresh water like many other Great Lakes shipwrecks. No human remains were seen. But the lifeboat remains tethered to the bigger vessel, a poignant confirmation of witness accounts from 128 years ago. “That lifeboat … really connects you to the site and reminds you of how powerful the lakes are and what it must have been like to work on them and lose people on them,” Thunder Bay Superintendent Jeff Gray said in an AP interview.