JAN x FEB, 1984 Page 3 A MAIDEN VOYAGE INTO HISTORY THOM HOLDEN Thom Holden is an Institute member and works for the Corps of Engineers at the Canal Park Museum in Duluth. He is also a volunteer with Isle Royale National Park and Research The year 1983 marked the 50th anniversary of one of Isle Royale's most dramatic and unlikely shipwrecks and the largest mass rescue in the history of Lake Superior ship- wrecks as weli as the 75th anniversary of the Editor for Wilderness Port Shipwrecks, Ltd. in Superior, Wisconsin. He has authored several articles on Lake Superior shipwrecks, this being his first for Telescope. powerful Rock of Ages Lighthouse. Rock of Ages Lighthouse and the wreck scene are located off the southwest end of Isle Royale, Michigan in northwestern Lake Superior along the shipping route between the Canadian ---- The PURITAN was purchased by the Michigan Transit Comp -------- se any in 1924. The schooner B. FEARLESS is alongside. McDonald Collection/Dossin Museum