Black November: The Carl D. Bradley Tragedy Contributor(s): Kantar, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870137832 ISBN-13: 9780870137839 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2006 Annotation: Michigan's "storms of November" are famous in song, lore, and legend and have taken a tragic toll, breaking the hulls of many ships and sending them to cold, dark and silent graves on the bottoms of the Great Lakes. On November 18, 1958, when the limestone carrier |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - General - History | United States - 20th Century |
Dewey: 917.740 |
LCCN: 2006021614 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.08" W x 9" (0.37 lbs) 69 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: Michigan's "storms of November" are famous in song, lore, and legend and have taken a tragic toll, breaking the hulls of many ships and sending them to cold, dark, and silent graves on the bottoms of the Great Lakes. On November 18, 1958, when the limestone carrier Carl D. Bradley broke up during a raging storm on Lake Michigan, it became the largest ship in Great Lakes' history to vanish beneath storm-tossed waves. Along with the Bradley, thirty-three crew members perished. Most of the casualties hailed from the little harbor town of Rogers City, Michigan, a community that was stung with grief when, in an instant, twenty-three women became widows and fifty- three children were left fatherless. Nevertheless, this is also a story of survival, as it recounts the tale of two of the ship's crew, whose fifteen-hour ordeal on a life raft, in gale-force winds and 25 foot waves, is a remarkable story of endurance and tenacity. |