In May 1953, a Great Lakes freighter set out on what should have been a normal trip, but winds and waves from a sudden gale ...
During the catastrophic Great Lakes Storm of 1913, SS Henry B. Smith vanished while battling extreme winds and towering waves. Unlike many other ships lost in the same storm, no wreckage was ever ...
U .S. Coast Guard cutters Mackinaw (WLBB 30) and Neah Bay (WTGB 105) conducted ice-breaking operations on the Great Lakes Jan. 21, freeing and escorting commercial vessels beset by heavy ice. The ...
LUDINGTON, MI - The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan. Hurricane-force winds were whipping up 40-foot waves ...