Too Much Sea for Their Decks Audiobook Libro.fm

Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners wooden freighters early steelhulled steamers whalebacks and bulk carriers all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior

Included are compelling accounts of vessels destined for infamy such as that of the Stranger a slender wooden schooner swallowed by the lake in 1875 an account of the whaleback Wilson rammed by a large commercial freighter in broad daylight and in calm seas and the mysterious loss of the Kamloops a package freighter that went down in a storm and whose sailors were found on the Isle Royale the following spring having escaped the wreck only to die of exposure on the island Then there is the illfated Steinbrenner plagued by bad luck from the time of her construction to her eventual sinking in 1953 These tales and more represent loss of life and propertyand are haunting stories of brave and heroic crews

Arranged chronologically and presented in three sections covering Minnesotas North Shore Isle Royale and the three biggest storms in Minnesotas Great Lakes history the 1905 Mataafa storm the 1913 hurricane on the lakes and the 1940 Armistice Day storm each shipwreck documented within provides a piece to the history of shipping on Lake Superior