Before UC-97 was towed out into Lake Michigan, the U.S. Navy removed equipment and machinery considered valuable. Items included one of its two diesel engines and the periscope.

How in blazes did a WWI German submarine end up here? Was a Nazi Submarine Found in the ... discovered two weeks ago at the bottom of Lake Ontario. After two hours of searching, the Wilmette located the sub and prepared to fire upon it. The U-boat was ordered on 12 January 1916 and was launched on 17 March 1918. Wait, Lake Michigan? By ABC7. As with the rest of the completed UC III boats, UC-97 conducted no war patrols and sank no ships. wls.

She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 3 September 1918 as SM UC-97. The USS Wilmette set out at 08:17 on June 7 in search of the German U-boat [5]. WWI German submarine has underwater Lake Michigan grave. The U-boat was spotted for the first time by amateur scuba divers in late January and they had contacted the authorities.

Crewman aboard a ship owned by A and T Recovery on Lake Michigan dropped cameras into the deep to confirm what sonar was telling them – there was a German U-boat resting on the bottom of the Great Lake. Archaeologists associated with Niagara University and master divers from the U.S Coast Guard were mobilized on the site to determine what it was, and they soon realized that they were dealing with a German submarine that sank during World War II. Many years ago, in a land called Canada, there was a covert U-boat group harassing and sinking merchant ships in the gulf of st Lawrence. ... "The U-Boat was on tour. After much trial and error, and mounting frustration, finally the sun came out, and there she was – on the monitor I could see the stern of UC-97, a sunken World War I German U-boat 200 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. The German mine-laying sub U-C 97 was brought to the states in the summer of 1919. The U-boat was spotted for the first time by amateur ... World War II-era German U-boat. She was surrendered on 22 November 1918 to the United States.