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Page 91 During the morning, the wind increased gradually, moving to the northwest, and by noon a haze had formed over the water. Early in the afternoon, the wind began a series of abrupt and drastic shifts, building rapidly to more than seventy miles an hour, and gusting higher. In midaftemoon, a heavy snow closed in. The speed with which the winds increased and their sharp changes of direction - almost 180 degrees in the early stages - caused the waves to build tall and close together. Even at the height of the storm, the wind was often blowing at nearly right angles to the direction of the seas. Such conditions placed unprecedented and intolerable strains on the hulls and engines of steamers caught on the open lake. The Scott was last seen in the early afternoon, just north of Tawas City, MI, still steaming north. After the storm had passed, one of her lifeboats was found, empty, on the Canadian shore, twenty-three miles north of Southhampton, Ontario. In September of 1975, skin divers discovered the wreck of the Isaac M. Scott lying upside down and half buried in mud, under 175 feet of water, a little less than seven miles off Thunder Bay Island. She had been owned by The Virginia Steamship Company, another branch of the M.A. Hanna fleet. Her value when she was lost was $225,000. In the next issue we'll cover the histories of the G.A. Tomlinson, J.S. Ashlow, A.A. Augustus, Norway, John P. Rand Harry Yates and Leonard Mellon. When the ISAAC M. SCOTT passed upbound at Port Huron on Sunday, November 9,1913, northeast storm warnings had been posted, but the weather was fair and clear. Dossin Museum Coll.