Vragguiden.DK - Danmarks bedste vragguide! Breddegrad(ED50) 56:06,85N : L The Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech is the 1930 Ford Model A Sport coupe that serves as the official mascot of the student body at the Georgia Institute of Technology. On 5 October 2011 the MSC-chartered, Liberian-flagged container ship Rena astonished local mariners by grounding on the clearly marked Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga. The Serious Wreck Divers Choice! Safe Wreck Diving through Education and Quality Leadership. 2905 Fire Road Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey 08234 (609) 641-7722. Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his game's perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy. But they do love heroes. Doty's nearly identical sister ship, Tampa, courtesy American Shipbuilding Company Collection - Historical Collections of the Great Lakes - Click. BARHAM BATTLESHIP 1913-1941, wreck, wreck database. In 1509 when Henry VIII was crowned he realised the growing navel power of King James IV of Scots. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The Canadian singer- songwriter Gordon Lightfoot (1. Nov 1. 93. 8–) was an avid recreational boater on Lake Ontario, owning a stock 3. Erickson sloop (Sundown). Victor Carpenter custom 4. Golden Goose). It’s no suprise then that he took particular interest in a Nov 1. Newsweek account of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He was so moved that he began writing a song as a tribute to “the ship, the sea. Within a month he had penned what was arguably one of. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” 2. Here are the original song lyrics, lightly annotated: The legend lives on from the Chippewa 4on downof the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake 3it is said, never gives up her dead 7when the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore twenty- six thousand tons morethan the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,1. Gales of November came early. William Ramsdell, The Edmund Fitzgerald, 2013. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald The Annotated Gordon Lightfoot. The ship was the pride of the American side 8,9coming back from some mill in Wisconsin. As the big freighters go, it was bigger than mostwith a crew and good captain well seasoned. Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firmswhen they left fully loaded for Cleveland,1. The wind in the wires made a tattle- tale soundand a wave broke over the railing. And ev’ry man knew, as the captain did too’twas the witch of November come stealin’. The dawn came late and the breakfast had to waitwhen the Gales of November came slashin’. When afternoon came it was freezin’ rainin the face of a hurricane west wind. When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin’.“Fellas, it’s too rough t’feed ya.”At seven pm a main hatchway caved in; he said,“Fellas, it’s been good t’know ya!” 1. The captain wired in he had water comin’ inand the good ship and crew was in peril. And later that night when its lights went outta sightcame the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Does any one know where the love of God goeswhen the waves turn the minutes to hours? The legend lives on from the Chippewa on downof the big lake they call Gitche Gumee.“Superior,” they said, “never gives up her deadwhen the gales of November come early.”1. Gaines, James and Lowell, Jon. Nov 1. 97. 5, 4. 8 (online). The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald b/w The House You Live In. The White Hurricane, as it came to be known, remains the deadliest storm in the history of the Great Lakes. Spectacular head-on collision between 2 giant locomotives traveling at 90 miles an hour. This was one of the events at the 1913 California State Fair, and. The single was from the album Summertime Dream. Reprise MS 2. 24. Jun 1. 97. 6. When the mile- thick Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated over the Mid- Continental Rift some 1. Great Lakes. General bathymetry, 2. Wikimedia Commons. Great Lakes System Profile. Michigan Sea Grant. Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes, contains nearly 1. Lake Baikal) and is big enough to include all. Great Lakes with a couple of extra Lake Eries thrown in. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill, 1. World. Cat). U. S. Army General Chart, 1. NOAA Chart 1. 49. After the Ice Age the area around Lake Superior was populated by several tribes including the Plano, the Laurels, the Woodlands and finally the Chippewa. Lawrence River after a prophecy, or miigis, fortold of. Around 1. 65. 0 AD the tribe split and followed both the northern and southern shores of the lake as far west as Madeline Island. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1. World. Cat) or. Danziger, Edmund. The Chippewas of Lake Superior. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1. World. Cat). 5. The Ojibwe spoke Anishinaabemowin- Anishinaabe, one of the Algonquian languages. The phrase “Gitche Gumee” is an anglicized version of “gitchi- gami” or “kitchi- gami”. Gitche Gumee” was first used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1. The Song of Hiawatha. In 1. 61. 9 the French interpreter . See: Butterfield, Willshire. The Great Lakes are large enough to effect weather patterns and even the climate. They act as a massive heat sink and make summer temps cooler and winter temps warmer. These November storms have long been referred to by the local mariners. Witches of November.” For a primer see: Eichenlaub, Val. Weather and Climate of the Great Lakes Region. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1. World. Cat). 7. There have been hundreds of significant shipwrecks on Lake Superior and more than 1. The area around Whitefish Bay (“the Graveyard of the Great Lakes”) is especially dangerous: since the loss of the Invincible in 1. Not surprisingly most of these occurred during the Oct and Nov storms. The result is that bodies never float to the surface. Texas State University- San Marcos, 2. THE SHIP8. Edmund Fitzgerald was conceived as a business venture of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Aug 1. 95. 7 and, using innovative prefabricated hull sections, construction was completed in only 1. The Detroit News wrote that it was “The biggest object ever dropped into fresh water in recorded history.”. For more on the early history of the ship see: Telescope. May–Aug 6. 6(2): 4. Launch day. 9. After successful sea trials the Fitzgerald, operated for Northwestern by the Columbia Transportation Division of Oglebay- Norton in Cleveland, began freighting iron ore in the form of taconite pellets from the Mesabi Range in northeast Minnesota to steel plants in Detroit and Toledo. The Toledo Express”). Over her 1. 7- year career she made almost 7. She was, indeed, as Lightfoot wrote. The pride of the American side.” Here is an undated US Army Corp. In the early morning hours of Sun 9 Nov 1. Fitzgerald – moored at the Burlington Northern Dock #1 in Superior, Wisconsin – was loaded with. After loading each of the 2. Kestner clamps: Detail, Fitzgerald’s hatch and Kestner clamps. The Fitzgerald was bound for the Great Lakes Steel Plant at Zug Island, Michigan, where the taconite would be transformed into steel for auto parts – a 7. Mc. Sorley guided the ship into Lake Superior. At 4: 3. 0 pm the Fitzgerald was joined by by another ore freighter – the Arthur M. Jesse Cooper, en route Gary, Indiana. The Arthur M. Anderson, still plying the lakes, in the ice on Lake Erie, 2. Feb 2. 01. 5. Boatnerd. For some book- length references on the Edmund Fitzgerald see: Schumacher, Michael. Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. New York: Bloomsbury, 2. World. Cat), or Bishop, Hugh and Paquet, Dudley. The Night the Fitz Went Down. Duluth, Minn.: Lake Superior Port Cities, 2. Hemming, Robert. Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1. On 8 Nov a low- pressure system developed over the Oklahoma panhandle. As it moved across the midwest and intensified the National Weather Service predicted that it would eventually pass just south of Lake Superior. Cooper recalled “at the time the gale warnings were fringe.. At 1: 0. 0 am 1. 0 Nov the NWS upgraded the weather to a storm warning as the system passed over Marquette and the two ships plotted a new northernly course hoping that the lee provided by. Isle Royale would protect them from the developing weather. Weather map, 1. 0 Nov 1. NOAA Central Library Data Imaging Project. Although Lightfoot wrote “when the Gales of November came early,” historically the storm was pretty much right on time. See. Hultquist TR, et al. Reexamination of the 9–1. November 1. 97. 5 “Edmund Fitzgerald” Storm Using Today’s Technology. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. May: 8. 7(5); 6. 07–6. The Fitzgerald first encountered the storm around 1: 0. Nov and reported NE winds of 5. Mc. Sorley radioed that he was reducing speed. To anyone who knew him this was a startling admission. Fitzgerald and “very seldom ever hauled up . The Physics of Ocean Waves (for Physicists and Surfers). Around this time the US Coast Guard issued a warning that the Soo Locks had been closed and all ships should find safe anchorage. The Fitzgerald and Anderson charted a new southern course to seek the relative safety. Whitefish Bay: Likely track of the Fitzgerald. From the NTSB report, ref. As the meteorologist Tom Hultquist (see ref. Wind speed and wave height, 1. Nov 1. 97. 5. At 3: 1. Fitzgerald rounded Caribou Island and as Capt. Cooper later stated “. Fifteen minutes later. Mc. Sorley, via radiophone, contacted the Anderson: “Anderson, this is the Fitzgerald. I have sustained some topside damage. I have a fence rail laid down, two vents lost or damaged, and a list. Do you have your pumps going?”“Yes, both of them.”At 4: 1. Mc. Sorley radioed the Anderson again: “Anderson, this is the Fitzgerald. I have lost both radars. Can you provide me with radar plots till we reach Whitefish Bay?”“Charlie on that, Fitzgerald. We'll keep you advised of position.”Mc. Sorley desperately attempted to locate the Whitefish Bay radio beacon and was advised by Capt. Cedric Woodard of the saltwater vessel Avafors that both the light and beacon were. For all practical purposes the Fitzgerald was now sailing completely blind in difficult seas. Around 5: 5. 0 pm Woodard radioed Mc. Sorley: “Fitzgerald, this is the Avafors. I have the Whitefish light now but still am receiving no beacon. Over.”“I’m very glad to hear it.”“The wind is really howling down here. What are the conditions where you are?”? Over.”“I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I’ve ever been in.”“If I’m correct, you have two radars.”“They’re both gone.”1. At 6: 3. 0 pm Cooper reported that two successive 3. Anderson. Whether these rogue waves hit the Fitzgerald. Anderson first mate Morgan Clark radioed the Fitzgerald about an upbound ship and Mc. Sorley made no mention of high waves: “Fitzgerald, this is the Anderson. Have you checked down? Fitzgerald, there is a target nineteen miles ahead of us. So the target would be nine miles on ahead of you.”“Well, am I going to clear?”“Yes. He is going to pass to the west of you.”“Well, fine.”“By the way, Fitzgerald, how are you making out with your problem?”“We are holding our own.”“Okay, fine. I’ll be talking to you later.”1. The Anderson never talked to the Fitzgerald again. Cooper, unable to reestablish any form of contact. Fitzgerald’s running lights on the horizon, assumed the ship lost. Hatch covers blew out, scattering taconite everywhere. I maskinrummet ses denstore dampkeddel p. Overbygningen, som engang var af tr. Denskrue, som en gang f. Paavo Jattu, Hundested. I 1. 97. 6 traf undertegnede styrmand og dykker Paavo Jattu en fisker i Gren. I sommeren 1. 97. Det blev besluttet at g. Indenhjemturen blev det besluttet lige at passere den af mig udregnede position,for at se om ekkoloddet skulle f. Vi havde ikke regnet med at findenoget. Vandetvar meget klart og i lygtens sk. Det var velomkring 5. Det var en gammel damper af jern, s. Vraget var overalt bevokset med store s. Det var en pragtfuld oplevelse at sv. Bagefter , under hjemturen til Hundested, kunne vi ikke lade v. Dagen efter kontaktede jeg Valdemar Jensen (Dykkervalde)en nu pensioneret og meget kendt vragdykker, der fortalte, at en sandpumper- damper ved navn . Frederikholm var ud- styret med en 3- gangs dampmaskine med tilh. Skibet var udstyret med ankerspil og 2 stk. Desuden fandtes ballastpumpe med 5 cm r. Den. 13. 3. 1. 91. A/S Frederiksholm Tegl og Kalkv. Mygind, 1. maskinmester. M. E. Henriksen, 2. N. Narvbjerg, fyrb. Isralsen, matros. S. S Weng, matros J. C. Jensen og skibsf. Ilanddrevet lig og redningsb. Sandpumperen, der er p. Den mulighed kan naturligvist. Endvidere har en fiskerb. Den forulykkedes navn er endnu ikke oplyst. Heller ikke ved man noget om den . Skibet var nylig underkastet eftersyn p. Spansk damper . 2. Konvojs. Undervejs blev kusken t. Det henstod i kapellet i Lyn. Redningskransen blev st. Lasten er tom , der erikke spor af sand deri, men det kan v. Overbyggningen er smuld- ret bort, og master og suger. Dette flotte minde frafortiden er nu desv. Den store flotte skrue er bort- taget, meget af maskinen er fjernet ligesom beboelsen forude er helt raseret.
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