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The 1913 storm raged for over four days and sank multiple ships and claimed the lives of over 250 sailors, earning the nickname “The White Hurricane,” as reported by the Detroit Free Press. November 9 ...
The James Carruthers is just one of the many shipwrecks Trotter and his team at Undersea Research Associates have found over ...
The Carruthers was the last of eight vessels that sank in a 1913 storm that ... sank at least a dozen Great Lakes ships and took the lives of some 250 people. The damage still ranks among the worst ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.