Fifty years ago, in the early morning hours of , the 600'long Great Lakes freighter Daniel J Morrell broke in two and sank in Lake Huron, off the tip of Michigan's "thumb" It had left Buffalo a few days earlier and was upbound, empty, toward Taconite Harbor, Minn, for one more load of iron ore before winter shutdownJohn McGean Location Harbor Beach Sunk Depth 195 feet Cost $160 Dive it From Go Between Built and launched by the American Shipbuilding Company in Lorain, Ohio in 1908, the John McGean was an imposing sight At 432 feet in length with a beam of 52 feet and a weight of 5100 gross tons, she was a heavyweight for her timeOn the night of November 29th, 1966, the steamship Daniel J Morrell, steaming in ballast from Lackawanna, NY for Taconite Harbor, MN, broke in two and sank while fighting through a ferocious November gale on Lake Huron Only one of her twentynine man crew survived her loss
The Daniel J Morrell Lost But No Longer Forgotten John Debeck Jayson Matthews John Debeck Amazon Com Books
