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Sunday•-, February 29th: will sunk in Lake Erie with.a toss - 481i.•'eS•
mark the- bard ' annual of!5lives. Two years after_ the.•
"MaritierS',Ser•vrct>'to b. held- April • 47th, '1944; The November 9th,'.: 1913.
in Einox PreShyter•lan Church 'Freighter James . H. Reed' . catastrophe .the- passenger
in, atenior,y of the sailors, whoSaink in Lake Erie with a loss sEilp Eastland capsized in the
lost tha, it lit i. s during the ten!ii e•s Chicago Rivei ,•claiming the
l,rcatc si lr,aster ever June 4., 1944, the pleasure lives of .8.10 passengers and,
11(01•did in.'tht history the craft Olga sant., in Lake.Et to prow,' This accident. occurred
•: (,r -eat Lakes. li•ith a loss of 17lives: in'the sUmmerof 1915
It' war: on ' u'nday,�•>: Jupe•14 194.4' the freighter - u fat- as is known t'he• first
Noc'ember +, 19.13,• that rl 1mperor sank in, 'Lake, :\la riners' Service•.to be held.
:" shtps • and 25-1 sailor's went' Superior with a loss' of; 10, at. K.3ox Presbyterian
down dur,int 1111.. -raging lives, ,. - • Church, Goderich was inthe
•storm. T„et;t' four vessels ° . S.eptember 24 1947, the • spti.ng: of ..1903, This 'service
were lost in •Lake :Huron, freighter Melverton sank in was conducted by the, late Dr•
eight: of these ships went the Si. Lawrence River with a James Anderson, Minister of
down in the Goderich area:. loss of 12 lives. '' Knox Church from 1891• until
They- e' `. Thr, (V-e'f> d, -September 17th,- 194.9. the his death 14
w l e t r in . 10. The serv,i.ce .
Regina, John A.. McGean, . pass'enger ship Noronic sank at that time \%as known as
lames Carruthers,: Isaac M in Toronto harbour, after "The Sailors and" Fisher
_Scott :• Hydros: Charles S ''•burning; .with.. a,. loss of 119 men's Service'•: It was held
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lives: just before the -shi
October 29, 1951 -•. the season optnedeach spring. Ind•.
freighter Pentobco.t sank in .. the spring of 4914; Drs. George .-
Buffalo harbourwith a -loss of Ross, the minister 'of Knox.
'10 lives:
Price and the Argus.
The Great-. Lakes' have
claimed raa_any ."ships and,.
tin any • lives ..during .• the. past
thirty years, some .of which
. are as fol -lows.:- The Edmund
:Fitzgerald sank in Lake
Superior. November.;•
1975, crew of 29 lost;'' •
.November •11, .1940. 3.
freighters; Novadoc: Davock •
Church from 1910 to 1.916, who
May 11, 1953., the are had officiated,at the burial of
carrier Reni•y Steinbrenner .'3 sailors who had lost their
sank in Lake Superior With a .Jives in 'the Great Storm
loss of 17 lives. - suggested that the name of
May 19. 1958 the freighter the service,be changed to the
Carl D I3
moderator
of Knox
Presbyterian , Church,; will.
condiuot , the' • .63rd ..annual •
.Mpriners', Service, Which has
been heldt at Knox since -..the
Great Storm on.November
9th,1913. The moderator will•
be assisted . ; by the %tar•
houraires; the well known all
male •:°choir • which has "
presented many 'program.mes.••.,
through Western Ontario. The
choir which hastaken part in
the Mariners' Service on
twenty-two ocea'sio.ns will b.er •.:'
under the direction'of Mr:
Gcy�rge Buchanan.'
WELCOME .
radley sank in Lake ."Mariners' Service SERVICE
and Anna C, Minch. sank to Michigan with a loss of 33Many strange, unexplained
Lake Michigan with a total 'lives.
loss ctf 5" lues. circumstances are connected-.
May •1 1965 the freighter with` .many of the bodies`.
p Graightille sank, in the recovered along - the shore -
Str•aights'of Mackinac with a the body of Milton Smith, an
loss of 1i)_1ives: engineer aboard the. Price,
Noyember.29th, 19.66,: the came .ashore. in a life':
freighter Daniel Morrel sank preserver from the Regina:
The body of the stewardess
on the,. Argus,.`Mrs. Walker,
was found wrapped in .a
heavy coat belonging to bne, of .
the . ship's :engineers `. and'
•about her was the, Captains
awn Iife-preserver. . When
Captain' Gutch's body was
-located there was no life..
,preserverOn it.. ;Probably.one.::.
of the strangest facts during
the great storrii =.is that. all
ships which sank in: Lake.
Huron apparently went down '
at' •the same time. Sailors •
• froth different'. ships, whose.
whose .bodies were Washed
ashore at widely separated.
...points and' who carried
' w.atehes, when note was
taken of it and compared,- all
watches h All stripped, at 'the
sante. tithe\- twe.nty-five-
minutes after one o'clock.
The Rev. G,.L. '.Royal,
Se tember 22, 1941, the
pleasure launch WA -WI -NET
sank in'Geor.gi,an Bay with a
tt s's of 25 lie5:
December 2,1942, the'barge.
Clevoc and the tug Admiral
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n!'eti:'',t ed -
in Lake Huron with a loss of
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