Six years before the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, inspiring the song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” another ship met a grisly end in the Great Lakes. The SS Daniel J. Morrell was on ...
A steady snow was falling on Lake Huron as the 603-ft. freighter Daniel J. Morrell steamed toward Taconite, Minn., for a load of iron ore, but the night was otherwise tranquil. Watchman Dennis Hale, ...