SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60 …

Nov 28, 2024 · The Great Lakes ore carrier Daniel J. Morrell went to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1966, claiming more than two dozen lives. Here's what happened.

Sep 2, 2015 · Dennis Hale, the lone survivor of one of the Great Lakes' most deadly shipwrecks, died today in Ashtabula, Ohio, after a bout with cancer. He was 75. When Hale would travel the Great Lakes region...

Sep 20, 2022 · The one this time around is the freighter S.S. Daniel J. Morrell that sank over 200 feet to the bottom of Lake Huron, about thirty miles northeast of Harbor Beach off the Michigan Thumb. It sank in November 1966, nine years to the month before the Edmund Fitzgerald under the same circumstances: “The Gales of November”.

Around 2 a.m. Nov. 29, 1966, off the tip of Michigan’s Thumb in Lake Huron, two bangs as loud as canon fire jolt Dennis Hale, 26, a watchman aboard the bulk freighter Daniel J. Morrell, from...

Nov 30, 2016 · DULUTH, Minn. — Fifty years ago Tuesday, in the early morning hours of Nov, 29, 1966, the freighter Daniel J. Morrell was steaming up the Great Lakes, bound for Taconite Harbor to pick up a...

Apr 27, 2018 · When the freighter S.S. Daniel J. Morrell sank to the bottom of Lake Huron in November 1966, it preceded by nine years the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- whose own tale became seared...

Sep 21, 2016 · Fifty years ago, in the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, the 600'-long Great Lakes freighter Daniel J. Morrell broke in two and sank in Lake Huron, off the tip of Michigan’s “thumb.” It had left Buffalo a few days earlier and was upbound, empty, toward Taconite Harbor, Minn., for one more load of iron ore before winter shutdown.

Aug 6, 2022 · The Daniel J. Morrell, a 356-foot freighter, had transported coal, grain, and sometimes stone during her working days. But she was primarily an iron ore carrier, and she was heavily loaded for her last trip of the year—a trip that unexpectedly extended the Morrell’s season.

On the night of November 29th1966 in a gale while upbound on Lake Huron, the Morrell broke in half off the tip of Michigan’s thumb. One man (Dennis Hale) survived 36 hours in a life raft before getting rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter after the raft washed ashore 15 miles north of Harbor Beach. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. DAHL, GEORGE A.,