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Great Lakes shipwrecks & survivals / written by William Ratigan ; pictures by Reynold H. Weidenaar.

By: Ratigan, William
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 1977Edition: Third editionDescription: 384 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0802870104 :Subject(s): Shipwrecks -- Great Lakes (North America) | Great Lakes (North America) -- HistoryDDC classification: 977/.03 LOC classification: F551 | .R3 1977
Contents:
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 -- Skinny dips and sunken treasures -- 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 -- Gone with the 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 -- 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 -- Sunset fires on Lake Ontario -- shirttail-cousin lake -- Middle of the rainbow -- Wonders of the deep -- Red skies and glowing water -- wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- Queen of the Inland Seas -- Last trip of the season -- 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 -- Boad of Inquiry -- Farewell, Edmund Fitzgerald -- The long ships growing longer -- "Operation Taconite" : full calendar navigation -- Index.

"Str. Edmund Fitsgerald edition."

Includes index.

Book 1. Lost in Lake Michigan -- 1. Full many a midnight ship -- 2. Stage setting for sudden death -- 3. Letters of doom -- 4. Headed for the bottom -- 5. Broken in half -- 6. Night watch and sea hunt -- 7. Story of two survivors -- 8. Last words -- 9. Flying Dutchmen on Lake Michigan -- 10. Good-bye Lady Elgin -- 11. No miracled phoenix -- 12. Sit down, you're rocking the boat -- 13. Skinny dips and sunken treasures -- Book 2. Lost off Lake Huron's shore -- 1. Summertime and the living -- 2. Ghosts in Georgian Bay -- 3. Wonders of the deep -- 4. Huron's story of two survivors -- 5. Ship-to-shore spirit -- 6. Death at the wheel -- 7. Strike it rich below -- 8. November 7 to 12, 1913 -- 9. Huron rescues and Flying Dutchmen -- Book 3. Gone with the Erie winds -- 1. Lake Erie takes a bow -- 2. Real battle of Lake Erie -- 3. Over the falls -- 4. Smoke on the water -- 5. Explosion and fire -- 6. Death and treasure -- 7. Charting courses by shipwrecks -- 8. Introducing herself in person -- 9. Collision in the fog -- 10. Messages in bottles -- 11. Black Friday -- 12. Dead reckoning by modern disasters -- 13. Hail, Erie, and farewell -- Book 4. Doomed on Lake Superior -- 1. Pretty tall water here -- 2. Look out below! -- 3. Down with their boots on -- 4. Solitary survivals and one exception -- 5. Wild cliffs and frozen beaches -- 6. Navigating under northern lights -- 7. Sailed away on Superior -- 8. November, 1905 -- Book 5. Sunset fires on Lake Ontario -- 1. The shirttail-cousin lake -- 2. Middle of the rainbow -- 4. [sic] Wonders of the deep -- 4. Red skies and glowing water -- Book 6. The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- 1. Queen of the Inland Seas -- 2. Last trip of the season -- 3. A day like the Bradley went down -- 4. Brink of eternity -- 5. Desperate search for survivors -- 6. No winter layover -- 7. Nothing is ever sure -- 8. In the wake of the wreck -- 9. Theories about the Fitzgerald shipwreck -- 10. Boad of Inquiry -- 11. Farewell, Edmund Fitzgerald -- The long ships growing longer -- "Operation Taconite" : full calendar navigation -- Index.

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