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Book The DANIEL J  MORRELL Lost  But No Longer Forgotten

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.

Book Deadly Voyage

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  • Author : Andrew Kantar
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2009-07-28
  • ISBN : 1628953446
  • Pages : 127 pages

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 127 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.

Book The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Download or read book The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald written by Michael Schumacher and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great Lakes history. It is also one of maritime lore’s great mysteries, the details of its disappearance as obscure now as on that fateful November day in 1975. The investigation into the wreck, resulting in a controversial final report, generated more than 3,000 pages of documentation, a mere fraction of which has been made available to the public. In The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Michael Schumacher mines this rich resource to produce the first-ever documentary account, a companion to his popular narrative Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. In the words of search and rescue personnel, ship designers and inspectors, scientists and naval engineers, former crewmen of the Fitz and the Arthur M. Anderson (the nearby ore carrier that captured the damaged vessel’s last communications), The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald recreates the doomed ore boat’s final minutes, the suspense of the search and rescue operations, and the drama of the subsequent Coast Guard inquiry. From the Anderson’s captain and first mate we hear reports of the Fitzgerald taking on water in the fierce storm near Michipicoten and Caribou Islands, losing its radar, and stating, finally, famously, “We are holding our own.” We follow the investigation, the speculation, and expert testimony to a problematic conclusion—countered by an alternate theory that the Anderson’s captain maintained to his dying day. By declaring the Edmund Fitzgerald an official gravesite, Canada closed the wreck to further exploration. But here the exploration continues, providing a unique, and uniquely enlightening, perspective on this unforgettable episode in America’s maritime history.

Book Shipwrecked

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  • Author : Dennis Hale
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780692009307
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Shipwrecked written by Dennis Hale and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constellation of Genius

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  • Author : Kevin Jackson
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2013-09-17
  • ISBN : 0374710333
  • Pages : 419 pages

Download or read book Constellation of Genius written by Kevin Jackson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, "On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation." It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was "blazing with a ‘constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled." Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.

Book Business  a Magazine for Office Store and Factory

Download or read book Business a Magazine for Office Store and Factory written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Business  the Magazine for Office  Store and Factory

Download or read book Business the Magazine for Office Store and Factory written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Business

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 910 pages

Download or read book Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book keeper

Download or read book Book keeper written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions

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  • Author : Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 676 pages

Download or read book Transactions written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 682 pages

Download or read book Report written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture

Download or read book Transactions of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1874-76 include also "Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science."

Book Kansas at the Centennial

Download or read book Kansas at the Centennial written by Kansas. State Board of Centennial Managers and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Graveyard of the Lakes

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  • Author : Mark L. Thompson
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2000-05-01
  • ISBN : 0814339417
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Graveyard of the Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a historian and seasoned mariner looks beyond the specific circumstances of individual shipwrecks in an effort to reach a clearer understanding of the economic, political, and psychological factors that have influenced the 25,000 wrecks on the Great Lakes over the past 300 years. Looking at the entire tragic history of shipwrecks on North America's expansive inland seas, from the 1679 loss of the Griffon to the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, Mark L. Thompson concludes that a wreck is not an isolated event. In Graveyard of the Lakes, Thompson suggests that most of the accidents and deaths on the lakes have been the result of human error, ranging from simple mistakes to gross incompetence. In addition to his compelling analysis of the causes of shipwrecks, Thompson includes factual accounts of more than one hundred wrecks. Graveyard of the Lakes will forever change the reader's perspective on shipwrecks.

Book Shackleton s Way

Download or read book Shackleton s Way written by Margot Morrell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-01-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead your business to survival and success by following the example of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. Because of his courageous actions, he remains to this day a model for great leadership and masterful crisis management. Now, through anecdotes, the diaries of the men in his crew, and Shackleton's own writing, Shackleton's leadership style and time-honored principles are translated for the modern business world. Written by two veteran business observers and illustrated with ship photographer Frank Hurley's masterpieces and other rarely seen photos, this practical book helps today's leaders follow Shackleton's triumphant example. "An important addition to any leader's library." -Seattle Times

Book Marine Mammals Ashore

Download or read book Marine Mammals Ashore written by Joseph R. Geraci and published by National Aquarium in Baltimore. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive manual for understanding and carrying out marine mammal rescue activities for stranded seals, manatees, dolphins, whales, or sea otters.

Book Official Bulletin of the Novelties Exhibition

Download or read book Official Bulletin of the Novelties Exhibition written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: