Press enter after choosing selection

Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals

Ratigan, William. Book - 1977 910.452 Ra 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.9 out of 5

Cover image for Great Lakes shipwrecks & survivals

Sign in to request

Locations
Call Number: 910.452 Ra
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length Call Number Checkout Length Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor
4-week checkout
910.452 Ra 4-week checkout On Shelf

"Str. Edmund Fitsgerald edition."
Includes index.
Book 1. Lost in Lake Michigan -- 1. Full many a midnight ship -- 2. Stage setting for sudden death -- 3. Letters of doom -- 4. Headed for the bottom -- 5. Broken in half -- 6. Night watch and sea hunt -- 7. Story of two survivors -- 8. Last words -- 9. Flying Dutchmen on Lake Michigan -- 10. Good-bye Lady Elgin -- 11. No miracled phoenix -- 12. Sit down, you're rocking the boat -- 13. Skinny dips and sunken treasures -- Book 2. Lost off Lake Huron's shore -- 1. Summertime and the living -- 2. Ghosts in Georgian Bay -- 3. Wonders of the deep -- 4. Huron's story of two survivors -- 5. Ship-to-shore spirit -- 6. Death at the wheel -- 7. Strike it rich below -- 8. November 7 to 12, 1913 -- 9. Huron rescues and Flying Dutchmen -- Book 3. Gone with the Erie winds -- 1. Lake Erie takes a bow -- 2. Real battle of Lake Erie -- 3. Over the falls -- 4. Smoke on the water -- 5. Explosion and fire -- 6. Death and treasure -- 7. Charting courses by shipwrecks -- 8. Introducing herself in person -- 9. Collision in the fog -- 10. Messages in bottles -- 11. Black Friday -- 12. Dead reckoning by modern disasters -- 13. Hail, Erie, and farewell -- Book 4. Doomed on Lake Superior -- 1. Pretty tall water here -- 2. Look out below! -- 3. Down with their boots on -- 4. Solitary survivals and one exception -- 5. Wild cliffs and frozen beaches -- 6. Navigating under northern lights -- 7. Sailed away on Superior -- 8. November, 1905 -- Book 5. Sunset fires on Lake Ontario -- 1. The shirttail-cousin lake -- 2. Middle of the rainbow -- 4. [sic] Wonders of the deep -- 4. Red skies and glowing water -- Book 6. The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- 1. Queen of the Inland Seas -- 2. Last trip of the season -- 3. A day like the Bradley went down -- 4. Brink of eternity -- 5. Desperate search for survivors -- 6. No winter layover -- 7. Nothing is ever sure -- 8. In the wake of the wreck -- 9. Theories about the Fitzgerald shipwreck -- 10. Boad of Inquiry -- 11. Farewell, Edmund Fitzgerald -- The long ships growing longer -- "Operation Taconite" : full calendar navigation -- Index.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

good submitted by kevinhe on July 26, 2019, 1:49pm we visited great lake shipwreck museum of Alpena in 2016. it's a good book.

Great submitted by lucydelo on July 14, 2023, 12:41pm A fascinating look at the dangers of the great lakes

Cover image for Great Lakes shipwrecks & survivals


PUBLISHED
Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 1977.
Year Published: 1977
Description: 384 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0802870104 :
9780802870100

SUBJECTS
Edmund Fitzgerald (Ship)
Shipwrecks -- Great Lakes (North America)
Great Lakes -- History.
Shipwrecks -- Great Lakes.
Great Lakes (North America) -- History.