Michael Schumacher

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz's radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite gale-force winds and thirty-foot seas, there was no reason to think the Fitz wouldn't find safe harbour at Whitefish Point, Michigan. The last words from the...

A compelling tale of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history and of amazing survival against all odds—now in paperback. Michael Schumacher recreates the circumstances surrounding the terrible storm of November 1966 that broke the mighty freighter Daniel J. Morrell in half, sending twenty-five of the crew to their deaths and consigning the surviving four to the freezing...