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Page 143 PRESERVING MICHIGAN'S MARINE HISTORY by SUSAN McGREEVY The Daniel J. Moirell was built by the Bay City Shipbuilding Company in 1906 in West Bay City, Michigan. She was one of the standard 600-footers of this period with a gross tonnage of 7,239 tons. She was built for the Cambria Steamship Company and carried their "C" on her masthead, although she was managed by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The Morrell was sixty years old when she departed Buffalo for Taconite Harbor, Minnesota on the 26th of November, 1966. She was sailing in ballast and had a crew of twenty-nine men. She sailed across Lake Erie and entered the Detroit River on the 27th. Adverse weather was developing, so the Morrell an- chored near Detroit. The following morning she proceeded with caution, expecting to nde out any heavy weather that might by ahead. She had already survived the 1958 storm that sank the Carl D. Bradley. The Moirell entered Lake Huron about 3:00 p.m. on the 28th. By 8:30 that evening she was contending with 8-foot waves and winds that had reached thirty knots. By midnight she was about twenty-five miles north of Harbor Beach, Michigan and the waves had reached to twenty feet, driven by winds of almost sixty knots. Suddenly it happened! The port side broke first and as the fissure wrenched across the deck, power The launching of the DANIEL J. MORRELL at West Bay Shipbuilding Company in 1906. Dossin Museum Collection