Along Lake Michigan
Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
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Product details:
- Publisher University Of Minnesota Press
- Date of Publication 31 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781517916770
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 229x152x10 mm
- Weight 283 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 53 black and white illustrations 700
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Long description:
Notable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some estimates), and Lake Michigan has more than the other four lakes combined. The stories of those wrecks tell the history of that mighty lake in its endless, mercurial challenge to human endeavor.
Surveying the wreckage throughout the decades, from the fiery end of the twin propeller–driven Phoenix in 1847 to the failure of the Anna Minch to outrun the infamous 1940 Armistice Day storm, Michael Schumacher charts the course of shipping disasters great and small on Lake Michigan. He illuminates the details of maritime weather and shipcraft, the lives devoted to and lost on the water, and the mistakes and monumental failures that led to these ships’ watery ends.
Schumacher’s deft storytelling, drawing from deep research and comprehensive knowledge, brings forth the vivid details of the last minutes of these doomed ships, along with the circumstances surrounding their voyages. Here are tragic tales like that of the Eastland, the deadliest shipwreck in Great Lakes history, lost while docked in the Chicago River; the Rouse Simmons, a wooden schooner loaded with Christmas trees; the train ferry Milwaukee and the Wisconsin, a package freighter, gone within one week of each other in October 1929; and the passenger vessel the Lady Elgin, a devastating loss met with incredible heroism.
Liberally illustrated with historical photographs, the stories of these shipwrecks, spanning a full century of commercial traffic on Lake Michigan, document the myriad forms of bravery and misfortune that mark our encounters with the Great Lakes.
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Contents
Introduction
Phoenix (1847)
Niagara (1856)
Lady Elgin (1860)
Alpena (1880)
Appomattox (1905)
R. J. Hackett (1905)
Pere Marquette 18 (1910)
Rouse Simmons (1912)
Eastland (1915)
Milwaukee (1929)
Wisconsin (1929)
Henry Cort (1934)
J. Oswald Boyd (1936)
William A. Davock (1940)
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
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