The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-11-09, Page 23PAGE 2A--GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 ,1978
First
annual
'from page IA
suggests the following
'books: Winds Over Lake
Huron by Captain Robert
A. Sinclair (who was a
local boy but now lives in
Cleveland) ; Great Lakes
Shipwrecks and Sur-
vivals • by William
Ratigan; and Fresh
Water Furty by Frank
Barcus.
Our Great Lakes have
always had a lot of
history connected to
them, especially as far as
severe storms and
shipwrecks are con-
cerned, says Mrs. Pen-
nington: These storms
and shipwrecks have
been of deep interest and
concern to him as long as
he can remember, he
says.
Mr. Pennington says he
realizes that there have
been many storms and
disasters on the Great
Lakes before and since
the Great Storm of 1913.
Most of the other storms,
however, were con-
centrated on just one
lake. The Great. Storm
swept through all the
Great Lakes.
Thirteen - ships were
sunk with no survivors
and many more were
smashed on rocks and
stranded.
There is . a small
discrepancy about the
number of fatalities. A
Canadian plaque says 244
sailors lost their lives in
the storm ' while an
American plaque says
the number was 235. The
reason for the two dif-
ferent figures, says Mr.
Pennington, is because
the number of lives lost
was calculated based on
the number of crew on
each ship and some of the
ships may have been
short staffed.
LAKE HURON
HIT HARDEST
Southern Lake Huron
was the hardest hit in the
Great Storm. The storm
lasted four days begin-
ning on Lake Superior on
November 7 and finally
ending on November
Lake Huron was strufk
the worst on .Sunday;
November 9 around noon.
November is a par-
ticularly bad month for
storms on the lakes, says
Mr. Pennington, but this
particular storm came up
so quickly and with such
force that it resulted in
the greatest marine
disaster on the Great
Lakes ever.
"It is something which
we would hope would
never happen again. But
it did happen and the
memory of it shouldn't be
allowed to die out," says
Mr. Pennington.
Mr. Pennington has a
list of all the damaged
ships and the dead crew
-members' names from
the Great Storm but for
sake of brevity; this story
will only include the
names of the ships which"
were total losses with no
survivors.
On Lake Huron there
were eight. They were the
steamer Charles .S.
Price; the steamer Isaac
M. Scott; the steamer
James Carruthers (it was
a .new ship which had
made only one or two
trips) ; the ste mer
Regina; the stea er
Argus; the stew er
Hydrus; the stea er
John A. McGean and he
steamer Wexford. Tis
latter ship had three men
from . Goderich on its
crew who lost their lives.
Murdock McDonald's
body was washed ashore
in a lifeboat at Bayfield;
his first cousin, Donald
McDonald's body was
never found; and"'a third
body, that of James Glen
was never found either.
On Lake Superior there
were two total losses.
They were the steamer
H.B. Smith and the
steamer Leafield.
On Lake Erie there was
only one total loss,
Lightship No. 82..
On Lake Michigan the
barge Plymouth and the
barge Halstead were
total losses. ,The steamer
Louisiana, which was on
Lake Michigan at this
time, was the first
casualty reported but all
the crew off this ship
were saved.
Twenty-seven bodlea
washed ashore on the
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