Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Telescope, v. 12, n. 11 (November 1963), p. 248

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November 248 Telescope upside down, north of Port Huron, for several days (see Telescope, Sept., 1963, page 218). As with most severe storms, one lake seems to have borne the brunt of the storm. Although there were ships lost on all the lakes except Ontario, Lake Huron claimed the most. Eight modern steel ships went to the bottom with all hands on that lake sometime during the late hours of November 9th and the early hours of November 10th. Two other ships were lost on Lake Superior, two more on Lake Michigan, and one on Lake Erie. On U.S. 25 near Port Sanilac, a monument overlooks a restless Lake Huron. It was placed there to commemorate the memory of the 251 American sailors who perished in this storm. At Goderich, Ontario, in the picturesque Maitland Cemetery, a dark red headstone stands as "A memorial to the unidentified seamen whose lives were lost in the Great Lakes disaster of November 9th, 1913." On the other side is one word, "sailors." Five seamen who perished in the storm and who were never identified are buried there (see illustration).

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