Wrecks and Rescues
Sebastopol - 1855
"The scene on board was described as a fearful one, with huge waves striking and dashing clear over the steamer, making her frame quiver throughout." |
Lady Elgin - 1860
"Out to sea, for as far as the eye could reach, the angry waters were dotted with rafts and spars, with what appeared to be human beings clinging to them." |
Naomi - 1869
"The first sight that met our eyes was that of the captain and his wife. He was tied fast to one end of a rope passed over the mizzen boom, and his wife, who was fast to the other end, lay dead in his lap." |
Grace Channon - 1877
"The party presented a pitiable appearance, many of them having escaped with barely enough to cover them, the little boy wearing a coat that swept the walks as he went along." |
Monguagon - 1888
"Back her! Back her!" shouted Capt. Moore from the deck of the Monguagon, as he saw the Clarion bearing down on him. |
Crib Disaster - 1893
"I have you, and you will not drown." |
M.J. Cummings - 1894
"We left the woman cook dead in the rigging, and poor Jim unconscious, and we pulled for shore." |
Chicora - 1895
"Somewhere out on Lake Michigan the fine steamer Chicora may be pounding helplessly about among the big ice floes, if she has weathered a 48-mile gale, and if she has withstood the jamming of the ice-heaps." |
Appomattox - 1905
Perhaps the largest wooden bulk steamer ever built lies 150 yards offshore at Atwater Beach. |
Tessler - 1913
The Tessler was headed toward port when suddenly a stay bolt let go, immediately putting out the fire in the boiler, and stranding the tug thirty miles from shore in a sixty-mile gale. |
Christopher Columbus - 1917
"When I saw the ship stick its nose into the underpinnings of the water tank, I yelled to the people to get back." |
Milwaukee - 1929
"He knows more tricks in handling a boat in a storm than most lake captains. With him in charge I’m not greatly worried." |
Prins Willem V - 1954
The accident tore a hole in the starboard side of about six meters, and a wave of water came through. |