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A lake freighter that sank in a collision with Dalwarnic off Somerset. Noronic Canada: 17 September 1949 A Great Lakes cruise ship that burned and sank at Toronto dock, with over 100 passengers killed. North Star: 26 November 1886 The schooner sank with a load of coal off Stony Island. Ocean Wave: 1853 Paddlewheeler. Old Steamer
Originally named the Salt Lake City, when constructed in 1907, the bulk steel freighter sank near Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1918. It was the first wreck in Lake Superior to be valued at over one million dollars. [14] 8: Cumberland: Cumberland: June 14, 1984 : Near Rock of Ages Light [4
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.
More than 70 ships have plunged to the bottom of the Great Lakes during November, among them was the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell, which went down in 1966 and claimed all but one crew member.. Michigan ...
SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. Twenty-three were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan, United States.
SS Senator was a steel-hulled Great Lakes freighter that sank on Lake Michigan with the loss of nine lives and 268 Nash automobiles, [2] on Halloween of 1929 after she was rammed in heavy fog by the bulk carrier Marquette. [3] She lies in 450 feet (140 m) of water 16 miles northeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Stories about the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald were on the front page of Detroit Free Press' Nov. 12, 1975 edition. The ship disappeared on Nov. 10 on Lake Superior and was later found ...
The SS William B. Davock was a lake freighter that was constructed in 1907 by Great Lakes Engineering Works, at their St. Clair, Michigan facility for the Vulcan Steamship Co. (R.H. Pigott, Mgr.). She was operated by Vulcan Steamship from 1907 to 1915 in the Great Lakes coal, iron ore, grain and stone trades. In 1915 the ship came under the ...