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In November 1913, a massive winter storm swept through the Great Lakes. Nicknamed the “White Hurricane,” the blizzard caused ...
Shipwreck hunters found the SS James Carruthers, a wheat-carrying cargo ship that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. It's belly up in the bed of Lake Huron.
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 ...
Until Trotter found it, the Carruthers was the last of eight vessels still missing on Lake Huron that sank during the storm. It also, until recently, was among the largest sunken ships in the Great ...
MADISON, Wis. — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first ...
MADISON, Wis. — Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first ...