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Shipwrecks of Lake Huron The Great Sweetwater Sea by Jack Parker Loose pages
Shipwrecks of Lake HuronThe Great Sweetwater Sea by Jack Parker
Including Michigan, Huron, Mackinac Straits area
Soft cover
Loose pages , Staing along the edge
Copyright 1986
183 pages
CONTENTS
Biography: Jack Parker 7
Dedication 18
Preface 19
Map of Lake Huron 22
Shipwrecks of Lake Huron 24
Communications Come to the Lakes 39
Shipwrecks of Saginaw Bay 45
Shipwrecks of Georgian Bay, North Channel 62
Shipwrecks of Thunder Bay...Middle Island...False Presque Isle and Presque Isle 78
Shipwrecks of the Straits of Mackinac 90
Complete Listing of Lake Huron Shipwrecks 103
Postscript 167
Acknowledgements 170
Map of Great Lakes Bottomland Preserve 174
Great Lakes Bottomlands, Act 184, P.A. 1980179
Glossary 182
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
JACK PARKER, author 17
LAKE HURON MAP22-23
AFRICA, stmr 65
AGA WA, stmr 104
ANTELOPE, schr 51
ARGUS, stmr 106
C.F. BIELMAN, stmr 109
HARVEY BISSELL, schr 81
CAPITOLA, yacht 53
CEDERVILLE, stmr 95
CHOCTAW, stmr 82
GLEN CUYLER, schr 116
ESCANABA, stmr 119
T.S. FASSETT, schr 123
GARIBALDI, schr 68
GLENORCHY, stmr 125
T.M. GREENE 127
D.R. HANNA, stmr 84
J.M. JENKS, stmr 70
KALIYUGA, stmr 85
LINDEN, stmr 134
MATOA, stmr 56
MARY A. McGREGOR, stmr 138
JANE MILLER, stmr 72
MONOHANSETT, stmr 86
NORTHERN BELLE, stmr 73
OREGON, stmr 145
REPUBLIC, stmr 150
SAGINAW, stmr 153
JOHN SHAW, schr 59
L.C. SMITH, stmr 153
ST. MARIES, stmr 156
SWEETHEART, schr 158
HELEN TAYLOR, stm bge 100
UGANDA, stmr 101
UNITED STATES, stmr 161
EBER WARD, stmr 101
YUKON, schr 165
(Historical photographs from the collection of RALPH K ROBERTS, of Saginaw, Michigan.)
"SHIPWRECKS OF LAKE HURON... The Great Sweetwater Sea" began and grew as a part of the author's research and substantiation file for his "Dawn in the North Channel", a chronological log of the yacht PAISAN's travels on the waters of the Huron and the Georgian for many years.
Featuring in separate sections, over 1,100 shipwrecks, alphabetized and located in five separate sections, plus 35 historical photographs and a thumbnail history of how communications came to the lakes, this becomes the most complete shipwreck directory of Lake Huron and an interesting historical document as well.
Lake Huron is not only a haven for the cruising yachts, but a resting place for many a shipwreck from the GRIFFON to more recent times.
This book would be a welcome addition to anyone interested in the Great Lakes and the many shipwrecks, and a must for those searching for information on Lake Huron specifically.
Preface
Welcome to "THE SHIPWRECKS OF LAKE HURON...the Great Sweetwater Sea". In presenting this first-of-its kind volume, we admit right up front that we are neither shipwreck experts nor scuba divers. We have not seen any of these wrecks but have tracked them to their fate by five years of tedious...(but often exciting") research.
We grew up in a profession where we were taught to seek and sort out the truth in daily history and then report it. We feel this training, combined with a lifetime's experience in writing, editing and reporting, when applied to the mishmash of isolated "vessel lost" reports charged to Lake Huron, can only improve the historical records relative to this second largest of all five of the Great Lakes, the first ever seen by the white man. Because of the volume of cargo that has passed over Huron's waters, historians have put forth the theory that this lake contains more shipwrecks than any of the other four; better than 40% of the five lakes' total tally.
All that man knows of Huron's shipwrecks has been published before but only in bits and pieces and isolated listings in a score or more of different sources. But regardless of where we found these, they always stood alone; isolated as to Lake identity, they appeared as a part of another's story, never in a framework of their own. Our objective has been to find Lake Huron's wrecks, verify them and then document them in alphabetized form within their own story. We feel this book has gone a long way toward reaching that objective. (In attaining this plateau we would estimate that we have sifted, sorted, selected and rejected our way through five to six thousand wreck reports...each individualized by ship's name and type, tonnage, listed date and location of the incident that removed it from the rolls. Out of this we emerged with over 1,000 Lake Huron shipwrecks presented in alphabetical order as well as in specific areas of shipwreck density.)
In this project, like all historical work dependent upon the human mind and memory for its continuity of being, even the old and wildly scattered coverage of Huron's marine tragedies produced the inevitable array of errors and contradictions. It has been our prime purpose in this book, as explained earlier, to devote as much time and effort as was required to track down all of these listings, sort them out, and then eliminate as many of the errors and duplications as our checkpoints of proof indicate exist. Understand, we're not claiming this book to be totally without error; mistakes can be found by a professional editor in virtually every Great Lakes book ever written. We will, however, stake our reputations on the statement that it's as foolproof as 3,000 man-hours of records-research and a lifetime of "hands-on" acquaintence-ship with the Lake could make it. To add 25 years of skippering our own boats on these waters, north to south, east to west, in gale winds, high seas, calm seas, sunny days and humid fogs, simply adds frosting to the cake.
In welcoming you into the pages of "SHIPWRECKS OF LAKE HURON...the Great Sweetwater Sea", we are inviting you into the only single volume directory of Lake Huron shipwrecks ever published!
This little volume contains shipwreck listings that were extracted from better than 50 publications, Government files and historical archives, plus contributions from old ships logs and our own personal shipboard record compiled over the 25 years we sailed these waters. Additionally, listing information and other ancillary data came to us as a result of the generous input of friends and associates who were aware of our lifetime interest in the history of Lake Huron's freshwater ships and their destiny.
"SHIPWRECKS OF LAKE HURON...The Great Sweetwater Sea", has been a labor of love from start to finish. We sincerely hope that, in a small way, you will feel we have contributed something of value to this great lake that has given so much of itself to us during our lifetime on it.
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