ASIN: B00VRVV438
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 42
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the disaster by survivors and witnesses*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“And then movement caught my eye. I looked across the river. As I watched in disoriented stupefaction a steamer large as an ocean liner slowly turned over on its side as though it were a whale going to take a nap. I didn't believe a huge steamer had done this before my eyes, lashed to a dock, in perfectly calm water, in excellent weather, with no explosion, no fire, nothing. I thought I had gone crazy." – Jack Woodford, writerThe Great Lakes have claimed countless thousands of vessels over the course of history, including swallowing up gigantic freighters like the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest ship of its day to sail the Great Lakes and still the largest to lie below Lake Superior’s murky depths. Given the dangerous ...
