The Loss of the Carl D. Bradley

The 18th of November, 1958. The former Queen of the Lakes the SS Carl D. Bradley steamed from Gary Indiana and up the Wisconsin coast through Lake Michigan. Only a few short hours later she would be lost to the lake, taking all but two of her crew with her. But the true tragedy was just how close she was to being saved from her watery fate. As investigations revealed just how close she had come to surviving. Here is her story.
#History #Disaster

Works Cited:
Steel on the Bottom by Frederick Stonehouse
Mayday! Tragedy at Sea by James Hopp
Presque Isle County Historical Museum archieves
https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DC... (USCG Official accident investigation)
https://www.shipwreckexplorers.com/fr...
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/l...
https://www.gllmm.com/carlDBradley.htm
https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/01/fr...
http://demo.piadvance.com/2014/11/rem...
http://migenweb.org/presque_isle/brad...
http://www.carldbradley.org/
https://www.thealpenanews.com/news/lo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl...

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