Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are the magnificent excursion liner Eastland, which capsized at her pier in the Chicago River, drowning 835 people within clutching distance of busy downtown streets the shipwrecked steel freighter Mataafa, which dumped its crew into freezing waters while the snowbound town of Duluth looked on the dark Sunday in November 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale and the bitter November of 1958 when the Bradley went down in Lake Michigan during one of the greatest killer storms on the freshwater seas. Book.In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away. A less fun fact: including the Edmund Fitzgerald, there have been well over sixty shipwrecks on Lake Superior, although if you start counting boats and canoes, the number lost leaps into the thousands. Here is a fun fact: There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid. THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD: Queen of the Inland Seas Last Trip of the Season A Day Like the Bradley Went Down Brink of Eternity Desperate Search for Survivors No Winter Layover Nothing Is Ever Sure In the Wake of the Wreck Theories About the Fitzgerald Shipwreck Board of Inquiry Farewell Edmund Fitzgerald The Long Ships Growing Longer and Operation Taconite: Full Calendar Navigation. SUNSET FIRES ON LAKE ONTARIO: The Shirttail Cousin Lake Middle of the Rainbow Wonders of the Deep Red Skies and Growing Water. DOOMED ON LAKE SUPERIOR: Pretty Tall Water Here Look Out Below Down with Their Boots On Solitary Survivals and One Exception Wild Cliffs and Frozen Beaches Navigating Under Northern Lights Sailed Away on Superior November 1905. GONE WITH LAKE ERIE WINDS: Lake Erie Takes a Bow Real Battle of Lake Erie Over the Falls Smoke on the Water Explosion and Fire Death and Treasure Charting Courses by Shipwrecks Introducing Herself in Person Collision in the Fog Messages in Bottles Black Friday Dead Reckoning by Modern Disasters Hail Erie and Farewell. LOST OFF LAKE HURON'S SHORE: Summertime and the Living Ghosts in Georgian Bay Wonders of the Deep Huron's Story of Two Survivors Ship-to-Shore Spirit Death at the Wheel Strike it Rich Below November 7 to 12 1913 Huron Rescues and Flying Dutchmen. The Contents are: LOST IN LAKE MICHIGAN: Full Many a Midnight Ship Stage Setting for Sudden Death Letters of Doom Headed for the Bottom Broken in Half Night Watch and Sea Hunt Story of Two Survivors Last Words Flying Dutchmen on Lake Michigan Good-Bye Lady Elgin No Miracled Phoenix Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat and Skinny Dips and Sunken Treasures. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine no interior markings.

Great Lakes by William Ratigan