Download or read book S S Daniel J Morrell Sinking with Loss of Life Lake Huron 29 Nov 1966 written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S S Daniel J Morrell Sinking with Loss of Life Lake Huron 29 Nov 1966 written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SS Daniel J Morrell Sinking with Loss of Life Lake Huron 29 Nov 1966 written by United States. Coast Guard. Marine Board of Investigation and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Accident Report written by United States. National Transportation Safety Board and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Torn in Two written by Michael Schumacher and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota’s Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed the boat—which meant scrambling to rejoin the Morrell at its next stop or forfeiting a good chunk of his pay package. Seventy-two hours later, Hale would find himself clinging to a life raft alongside the frozen bodies of his crewmates in the violent waves of Lake Huron. The boat would not be reported missing for another twenty-seven hours and by the time the life raft was found, Dennis Hale would remain as the sole survivor of the wreck of the Daniel J. Morrell. This is life-and-death drama on the inland sea as only Michael Schumacher can tell it. In Torn in Two the great Lakes historian recreates the circumstances surrounding the terrible storm of November 29, 1966, that broke the mighty freighter in half, sending twenty-five of the Morrell’s twenty-nine-man crew to their deaths and consigning the surviving four to the freezing raft where all but Hale would perish. At the heart of Torn in Two are the terrible hours spent by Hale on the life raft with his crewmen, clinging to life for thirty-eight hours in freezing temperatures and wearing only a peacoat, life jacket, and boxer shorts. The fight to save Hale and find the others, the Coast Guard hearings into what happened, the discovery of the wreckage—Schumacher’s vivid narrative captures every harrowing detail and curious fact of the Morrell’s demise, finally doing justice to this epic shipwreck fifty years past.
Download or read book Deadly Voyage written by Andrew Kantar and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the harrowing story of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history. In the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell was caught in a deadly storm on Lake Huron. Waves higher than the ship crested over it, and winds exceeding sixty miles per hour whipped at its hull, splitting the 603-foot freighter into two giant pieces. Amazingly, after the bow went down, the stern blindly powered itself through the stormy seas for another five miles! Twenty-eight men drowned in the icy waters of Lake Huron, but one sailor—26-year-old Dennis Hale—miraculously survived the treacherous storm. Wearing only boxer shorts, a lifejacket, and a pea coat, Hale clung to a life raft in near-freezing temperatures for 38 hours until he was rescued late in the afternoon of the following day. Three of his fellow crewmates died in his raft. In Deadly Voyage, Andrew Kantar recounts this tale of tragedy and triumph on Lake Huron. Informed by meticulous research and the eyewitness details provided by Hale, and illustrated with photographs from the Coast Guard search and rescue operation, Kantar depicts one of the most tragic shipwrecks in Great Lakes history.
Download or read book The DANIEL J MORRELL Lost But No Longer Forgotten written by John DeBeck and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how a research team led by famed Great Lakes Marine Historian John DeBeck rewrote history about the wreck of the third largest shipwreck on the Great Lakes, the DANIEL J. MORRELL, a 603 foot long ore carrier that split in half in a violent storm on November 29, 1966. DeBeck was close friends for 33 years with the wreck's lone survivor, Dennis Hale, who survived 38 hours on a life raft with wearing only his Navy peacoat and a pair of JC Penney underwear! After Hale's passing in 2015, DeBeck and Hale's widow helped the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum to establish a new exhibit about the MORRELL and its 29 crewmembers. As the exhibit developed and families of the men were interviewed, clues came forth that told the true story of the wreck, not what had been falsely reported by the Coast Guard Board of Inquiry. A three year study led DeBeck and his team from coast-to-coast, and from Canada to Panama, as clues were uncovered and facts were found. For the first time ever, 55 years late, all 29 surviving families were united and given the facts, and finally, some closure about what actually happened on that frigid November night.
Download or read book Mighty Fitz written by Michael Schumacher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains one of the great unsolved mysteries in maritime history. Michael Schumacher relays in vivid detail the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, its many productive years on the waters of the Great Lakes, its tragic demise, the search effort and investigation, as well as the speculation and the controversy that followed in the wake of the disaster. Michael Schumacher is the author of six books. He has written 25 documentaries on Great Lakes shipwrecks, including three about the Edmund Fitzgerald. "In his ballad, Mr. Lightfoot sang about the Fitz's final tense moments, when "the waves turn minutes to hours: Now the hours have lengthened into years and years into decades-but the allure of this doomed ship and its missing men remains as strong as ever."-Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Proceedings written by United States. Merchant Marine Council and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strange Unusual Shipwrecks on the Great Lakes written by Wayne Louis Kadar and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coast Guard Miscellaneous written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Navigation and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Marine Safety Council written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 2210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coast Guard Miscellaneous Coast Guard omnibus hearing Chesapeake Bay oil spill Great Lakes Pilotage Act Port safety Edmund Fitzgerald foundering written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sole Survivor written by Dennis Hale and published by Lakeshore Charters & Marine Explorations, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald written by Frederick Stonehouse and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
