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The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on 10 November 1975, 29 Sailors lives were lost on Lake Superior.
What is not so well discussed in on 10 November on Lake Superior there were two other deadly shipwrecks. I did a google search and only found one, but believe as accurate yet another ship (freighter) sank on Lake Superior on 10 November.
SS Henry B. Smith was a steel-hulled lake freighter built in 1906 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio USA. The steamship was owned by the Acme Transit Company of Lorain, Ohio, under the management of William A. Hawgood. The hull number was 343 and the registration number was US203143.
Henry B. Smith was 545 feet in length, 55 feet in width, and 31 feet in height. The gross tonnage for the vessel was 6,631, and the net tonnage was 5,229. The engine was a triple-expansion type. She was named for Henry B. Smith (1849-1918), a prominent lumberman who was managing owner of the Ludington Woodenware Company in Ludington, Michigan.
The ship foundered and was lost in Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan, on 10 November 1913 during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. She was carrying a load of iron ore at the time of her sinking. All 25 crew members died in the sinking, and only two bodies were retrieved from the lake.
The wreck was discovered in 2013, one hundred years after she disappeared.
What is not so well discussed in on 10 November on Lake Superior there were two other deadly shipwrecks. I did a google search and only found one, but believe as accurate yet another ship (freighter) sank on Lake Superior on 10 November.
SS Henry B. Smith was a steel-hulled lake freighter built in 1906 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio USA. The steamship was owned by the Acme Transit Company of Lorain, Ohio, under the management of William A. Hawgood. The hull number was 343 and the registration number was US203143.
Henry B. Smith was 545 feet in length, 55 feet in width, and 31 feet in height. The gross tonnage for the vessel was 6,631, and the net tonnage was 5,229. The engine was a triple-expansion type. She was named for Henry B. Smith (1849-1918), a prominent lumberman who was managing owner of the Ludington Woodenware Company in Ludington, Michigan.
The ship foundered and was lost in Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan, on 10 November 1913 during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. She was carrying a load of iron ore at the time of her sinking. All 25 crew members died in the sinking, and only two bodies were retrieved from the lake.
The wreck was discovered in 2013, one hundred years after she disappeared.
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