Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
The biggest ship on the Great Lakes went down here on 10 November 1975 with all twenty-nine hands, seventeen miles from the shelter of Whitefish Bay, in a storm that put seventy-knot winds and thirty-five-foot seas over her decks. She never sent a distress call. She lies in 530 feet of water in Canadian waters, broken in two, and in 1995 her bell was raised and replaced with a replica engraved with the names of the crew. Gordon Lightfoot made her the most famous wreck in North America. The site is a protected grave: it is not a dive.
Lake Superior, off Whitefish Point (Michigan waters nearby). Source: A fully documented 1975 loss, located and protected as a grave site. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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