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W.H. Gilcher was a steel-hulled freighter that went missing on Lake Michigan on 28 October 1892. 18 people were killed. William B. Davock United States: 11 November 1940 Sank near Pentwater in the Armistice Day Blizzard. 32–33 people were killed. Wisconsin United States: October 1929 A steamboat that sank off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
By seven feet (2.1 m), she was longer than the second largest ship on the Great Lakes and her engine had almost twice the power of engines installed in most lake freighters. [3] At 639 feet (195 m), she was the longest freighter (and the largest self-unloader) on the lakes for 22 years.
The SS Benjamin Noble was a steel hulled package freighter package freighter built in 1909, that went down with all hands in 1914, in mid-lake off Knife River, Minnesota. Her wreck was found half buried in 2004, in 365-feet of water.
SS Howard L. Shaw was a 451 ft (137 m) long Lake freighter that was built in 1900 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company of Wyandotte, Michigan, for the Eddy-Shaw Transit Company of Bay City, Michigan. She was sunk on July 4, 1960 in Ontario Place where she remains to this day.
Alpena sank in Lake Michigan in the "Big Blow" storm on October 15, 1880, with the loss of all 80 on board USS Althea United States Navy: 12 March 1920 A former pleasure cruiser/patrol craft that was sunk by ice off Detroit. Cyprus United States: 11 October 1907 The lake freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior.
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. – On Sunday, a video captured massive waves crashing on Lake Michigan amid freezing temperatures and gusty winds. Temperatures near St. Joseph, where the footage was taken ...