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November: The Cruelest Month: Great Lakes Wrecks
November The Cruelest Month Great Lakes Wrecks Author:Frederick Stonehouse November is long considered the worst month for Great Lakes shipwrecks. Hundreds if not thousands of rotting hulls on the bottom give silent testimony to the "gales of November" and their destructive power on not only the ships but more important, the crews the sailed them. — November is the cruelest month -- — W.W. Arnold: a lonely plac... more »e to die --
Saturn and Jupiter: when the planets died --
H.C. Akeley: three for the bottom --
Algoma: a day of glory, a day of loss --
Maumee Valley, Belle Sheridan and Henry Folger: for want of a life-saving crew --
Mataafa: so near but yet so far --
John Owen and Myron: a double loss --
Maplehurst: "jump, damn it, jump: --
Anna C. Minch, William D. Davock and Novadoc: Armistice Day 1940, when death came in bunches.« less