PRESQUE ISLE, MI – Thick fog hung over Lake Huron on June 18, 1905. The 414-foot steamer Etruria was sailing northbound. The 545-foot freighter Amaza Stone was speeding southbound. The two ships ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAKE HURON — On a sunny, summer Sunday morning, perfect for being on the water, David Trotter, skippered his 32-foot boat, the ...
In November 1913, a massive winter storm swept through the Great Lakes. Nicknamed the “White Hurricane,” the blizzard caused one of the largest inland maritime disasters in United States history, ...
ALPENA, MI – This early freighter’s steel hull proved brittle when it tore apart on a Lake Huron reef in 1906. The nearly 300-foot steamer Grecian was in service from 1891 until June 15, 1906, ...
Shipwreck hunters discovered a sunken Canadian freighter on Lake Huron last year, the last shipwreck to be found that went down in the lake during a famous 1913 storm. Underwater Research Associates, ...