GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECKS AND SURVIALS - Edmund Fitzgerald Edition - Longer Ships - The Winter Runs by Ratigan, William - 1989

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdman's Publishing, 1989. 384 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with half-tone plates. Cover art by Reynold H. Weidenaar. The Chapters are: LOST IN LAKE MICHIGAN: Full Many a Midnight Ship; Stage Setting for Sudden Death; Letters of Doom; Headed for the Bottom; Broken in Half; Night Watch and Sea Hunt; Story of Two Survivors; Last Words; Flying Dutchmen on Lake Michigan; Good-Bye Lady Elgin; No Miracled Phoenix; Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat; and Skinny Dips and Sunken Treasures. LOST OFF LAKE HURON'S SHORE: Summertime and the Living; Ghosts in Georgian Bay; Wonders of the Deep; Huron's Story of Two Survivors; Ship-to-Shore Spirit; Death at the Wheel; Strike it Rich Below; November 7 to 12 1913; Huron Rescues and Flying Dutchmen. GONE WITH LAKE ERIE WINDS: Lake Erie Takes a Bow; Real Battle of Lake Erie; Over the Falls; Smoke on the Water; Explosion and Fire; Death and Treasure; Charting Courses by Shipwrecks; Introducing Herself in Person; Collision in the Fog; Messages in Bottles; Black Friday; Dead Reckoning by Modern Disasters; Hail Erie and Farewell. DOOMED ON LAKE SUPERIOR: Pretty Tall Water Here; Look Out Below; Down with Their Boots On; Solitary Survivals and One Exception; Wild Cliffs and Frozen Beaches; Navigating Under Northern Lights; Sailed Away on Superior; November 1905. SUNSET FIRES ON LAKE ONTARIO: The Shirttail Cousin Lake; Middle of the Rainbow; Wonders of the Deep; Red Skies and Growing Water. THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD: Queen of the Inland Seas; Last Trip of the Season; A Day Like the Bradley Went Down; Brink of Eternity; Desperate Search for Survivors; No Winter Layover; Nothing Is Ever Sure; In the Wake of the Wreck; Theories About the Fitzgerald Shipwreck; Board of Inquiry; Farewell Edmund Fitzgerald; The Long Ships Growing Longer; and Operation Taconite: Full Calendar Navigation. Here is a fun fact: There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid. A less fun fact: including the Edmund Fitzgerald, there have been well over sixty shipwrecks on Lake Superior, although if you start counting boats and canoes, the number lost leaps into the thousands.. First Printing - First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. Illus. by Reynold H. Weidenaar;. 8vo. Book.