Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Today is the anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. There is a site "dedicated to informing others". The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has a section of their site devoted to this boat: The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes. Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only...
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Ar (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
(write about the display in Paradise)
SAILORS, MARINERS & WARRIORS LEAGUE (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Ninety years after their disappearance in a Lake Superior blizzard, shipwreck hunters are trying to find two French warships that vanished without a trace, taking two Canadian Great Lakes captains and 78 French sailors with them. The wrecks of the Inkerman and Cerisoles, newly built at the Canada Car foundry in what was then called Fort William, Ont., caused the greatest single loss of life in a marine...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Ninety years after their disappearance in a Lake Superior blizzard, shipwreck hunters are trying to find two French warships that vanished without a trace, taking two Canadian Great Lakes captains and 78 French sailors with them.
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
At the eastern end of Lake Superior is Whitefish Bay, formed by the narrowing of the big lake between Ontario and Whitefish Point, Michigan. The prevailing westerlies on the Lake blow unfettered for hundreds of miles making the water west of Whitefish Point among the most treacherous, even as they lie nearest the safe [...]
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
One of the first lighthouses constructed on the shores of Lake Superior--and the oldest still active--is Whitefish Point Light near Paradise, Michigan. It was first lit in 1849. The lighthouse acts as a sentinel over Whitefish Bay--a graveyard of ships. Adjacent to the lighthouse is the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, which holds numerous artifacts, including the bell from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which...
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Ar (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
November 10, 1975. I was 10, and I had a paper route delivering the Marquette MIning Journal, which means I was out delivering newspapers to the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse the day the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. Television news in those...
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