PENTWATER, Mich. (WZZM) – November 11, 1940. For those who were alive on that date, especially in the Midwest region of the United States, it was a day never to be forgotten. More than 150 people lost ...
Valerie van Heest, director of the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association, looks back at the destruction and aftermath of the Armistice Day Storm of 1940. The storm sunk three freighters traveling on ...
Last time, we wrote about the Novadoc, the Davock, and the Minch sailing downbound off the west Michigan coastline, when they sailed into one of the worst storms in Great Lakes history. In November, ...