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Nov 7, 2022

Great Lakes Storm of 1913

"White Hurricane"
November 7 to 10, 1913

"a blizzard with hurricane force winds"
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913

The storm destroyed 19 ships, and stranded 19 others.

Ships that sank with their entire crew killed during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913:
ISAAC M. SCOTT (located 1976)
CHARLES S. PRICE (located 1913)
JOHN A. MCGEAN (located 1985)
ARGUS (located 1972)
HYDRUS (located 2015)
HENRY B. SMITH (located 2013)
JAMES CARRUTHERS
REGINA (located 1986)
WEXFORD (located 2000)
LEAFIELD
PLYMOUTH
LV-82 BUFFALO
(located 1914)

The wrecks of three vessels have yet to be located; their exact location is unknown.
JAMES CARRTHERS (Lake Huron)
LEAFIELD (Lake Superior)
PLYMOUTH (Lake Michigan)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBYOnvIFc8Y

The nasty November weather can also be attributed to a pair of other Great Lakes Shipwrecks:

CARL D. BRADLEY, lost on Lake Michigan November 18th, 1958.

And of course the EDMUND FITZGERALD lost on Lake Superior on November 10th, 1975.