Inkerman and Cerisoles were two French minesweepers that vanished during their maiden voyage in a storm on Lake Superior on 24 November 1918.
[3] Inkerman and Cerisoles were Navarin-class minesweepers, designed to clear naval mines along the coast of France and in the English Channel.
A contract for $2.5 million awarded to Canadian Car and Foundry to construct 12 minesweepers for the French government was reported in February 1918.
[4] As the ships steamed further into Lake Superior, they encountered a blizzard with recorded winds of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and waves 30 feet (9.1 m) high.
"[4] Water poured into Sebastopol, flooding part of her engine room and nearly putting out the coal fires in her boilers.
[9] In 2017, an effort organized by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum searched for the ships' wreckage for over a month near the Keweenaw Peninsula.