Qualla: Gunilda https://qualla.com/gunilda en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/f/0/9/v/gunilda-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gunilda https://qualla.com/gunilda Gunilda: Introduction https://qualla.com/gunilda/ Photo credit Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr. William L. Harkness was an oil baron who could afford anything. He owned a 385-ton steel-hulled steam yacht built in Scotland, the flagship of the New York Yacht Club. He sailed the Caribbean and the Atlantic with a crew of twenty. But when a local pilot on the north shore of Lake Superior offered to guide his ship through unfamiliar waters for fifteen dollars, Harkness said no. It was too much money. That decision would send the Gunilda to the bottom of the lake, and into legend.

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/0/9/v/gunilda-wp/f09v-gunilda-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gunilda: Scottish Steel, Gilded Hull https://qualla.com/gunilda/ Photo credit Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr. The Gunilda was launched on April 1, 1897, at the Ramage & Ferguson shipyard in Leith, Scotland. Naval architect Joseph Edwin Wilkins designed her for the Sladen family of England, and she cost roughly $200,000 to build -- a fortune in the era. Her name is a variant of Gunhild, a...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/0/9/v/gunilda-wp/f09v-gunilda-scottish-steel-gilded-hull.mp3 0:06 2 full Gunilda: Fifteen Dollars Too Many https://qualla.com/gunilda/ Photo credit Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr. In the summer of 1911, Harkness brought his family and friends north for a cruise along Lake Superior's rugged shore, bound for Rossport, Ontario, and then Lake Nipigon to fish for speckled trout. When the Gunilda stopped at Coldwell Harbor, Harkness asked about hiring a pilot to...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/0/9/v/gunilda-wp/f09v-gunilda-fifteen-dollars-too-many.mp3 0:06 3 full Gunilda: A Second Refusal https://qualla.com/gunilda/ Photo credit Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr. Harkness took a motor launch to Rossport and caught a train to Port Arthur, where he hired the tug James Whalen to pull the Gunilda free. The tug's captain advised bringing a second tug and barge to stabilize the yacht during the extraction. Harkness refused once more. On August ...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/0/9/v/gunilda-wp/f09v-gunilda-a-second-refusal.mp3 0:06 4 full Gunilda: The Most Beautiful Shipwreck in the World https://qualla.com/gunilda/ Photo credit Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr. The wreck lay undiscovered until 1967, when diver Chuck Zender located her resting upright on an even keel at the base of McGarvey Shoal, roughly 270 feet down. What he found was extraordinary: the Gunilda was almost perfectly intact. Her superstructure stood complete. Both masts...

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]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/f/0/9/v/gunilda-wp/f09v-gunilda-the-most-beautiful-shipwreck-in-the-world.mp3 0:06 5 full Gunilda: Dreams and Depths https://qualla.com/gunilda/ Photo credit Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr. The Gunilda has resisted every attempt to raise her. Ed and Harold Flatt of Thunder Bay tried cranes and barges in the late 1960s, managing only to pull up a piece of mast before a storm destroyed their equipment. Fred Broennle spent a decade obsessed with salvaging the wreck, bu...

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