Myron defied the adage that Lake Superior "seldom gives up her dead" when all 17 crewmembers were found frozen to death wearing their life jackets.

Myron's steering wheel, steam whistle, and many other artifacts were illegally removed from her wreck site in the 1980s by members of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society.

[4] As a lumber hooker, Myron was designed to tow one or two barges and to carry her own deck load to pay her way.

She towed big, old converted schooners stripped of their masts and running gear to carry large cargoes.

[2][6] Myron departed Munising, Michigan on Lake Superior bound for Buffalo, New York shortly before dawn on 22 November 1919, towing Miztec.

Captain Walter Neal, of Myron, decided to drop Miztec off near Vermilion Point before he attempted to fight their way to the shelter of Whitefish Bay.

The lookout at the Vermilion Life-saving Station gave the alert when he spotted the laboring Myron shadowed by Adriatic.

[9][11] Myron came to within 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of Whitefish Point when the rising water below deck extinguished her boiler fires.

[6][9][12] Adriatic stayed with Myron to her end and twice tried to break through the mass of debris to save the castaways but was forced to pull away to avoid foundering after touching bottom with both rescue attempts.

[9][13] The Vermilion lifesaving crew arrived at the wreck site after a wild trip but they could not reach Myron's crewmen without smashing their small boat in the mass of floating lumber.

Lighthouse keeper Robert Carlson reported that the exhausted Vermilion crew arrived at the Whitefish Point dock cut and bleeding from the beating they took by the heavy seas.

[6][14] Twenty hours after Myron's sinking, Captain Jordon of the steamer W.C. Franz was upbound out of the Soo Locks and on the lookout for survivors when he sighted a body moving on wreckage near Ile Parisienne.

Captain Neal's clothing was frozen to his body and his hands were so swollen that 2 finger rings were not visible but he survived.

Three days after the sinking, a Kingston, Ontario, newspaper cited a Lake Superior adage when it declared, "... Little hope is held out, however that Myron bodies would wash ashore, unless lashed to wreckage, as the cold lake waters prevent forming of gases, and, it is claimed bodies seldom rise to the surface.

[13] A tug owned by Frank Weston found a boat load of frozen crewmen in Whitefish Bay several days after the sinking.

[13] The bodies of five of the crewman were found encased in ice near Whitefish Point in November 1919, but further search for the lost crew was hampered by a heavy snow and sleet storm.

[18] Local residents found eight bodies of Myron's crew frozen in the ice near Salt Point on Whitefish Bay the next spring.

[15][21] At a special Steamboat Inspection Service hearing, Captain Neal stated: I was clinging to the roof of the pilothouse when the McIntosh hailed me shortly after the Myron went down from under me.

The marine community considered the verdict a gross injustice against the masters who risked their lives, their crews, and their vessels in efforts to rescue Myron in the treacherous shallows off Whitefish Point.

[15][21] John Steele and Tom Farnquist (Executive Director of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS)) discovered Myron's wreck in 1972, in 45 to 50 feet (14 to 15 m) of water, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Whitefish Point, at 46°48.463′N 85°01.646′W / 46.807717°N 85.027433°W / 46.807717; -85.027433 [21][22][23] Steel and Farnquist salvaged the anchor from Myron and donated it to the Museum Ship Valley Camp in Sault Ste.

[6][24] The GLSHS later positively identified the wreck in 1982, when they salvaged the builder's plate and other artifacts from Myron for display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point.