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TELESCOPE Page 115 LARGEST LAKERS LOST ems by RICHARD H. The Roy A.. Jodrey, a 640-foot self unloader, stranded in the St. Law- . rence River on November 20, 1974. She sank the next day with no loss of life, after only nine years of service. About fifty weeks later the 729-foot Edmund Fitzgerald foundered with her twenty-nine crewmen, in Lake Superior, at the age of 17, on November 10, 1975. Considering the fact that most lake boats) sulmmawe fon fiaity. to seventy years, were these two lcss- es of still new vessels unusual and exceptional? The answer seems to be no. Hor example, Dy list une, eile largest lake boats lost from 1913 to Io 73 WICKLUND 1975, sixty-two years, some inter- esting conclusions may be drawn. Taking only the ships over 524 feet in length, a list of thirteen wreck- ed vessels can be compiled. The four larges:t 1913 storm vic- tims ranged in age from the 7-year old Henry B.. Smith to the less than one-year-old James Carruthers. These two were the largest in size at 545 and 550 feet, respectively. The Isaac M.. Scott and Charles S.. Price were each 524-feet. All four found- ered with their entire crews, three losses occurring in Lake Huron and one in Lake Superior. The two larg- est vessels were never found, but the locations of the two 524-footers ROY A. JODREY ROY A. JODREY SAULT STE. Mani = oe Photo by DAVID P. WAISANEN