Lake Michigan Shipwrecks: South Haven to Grand Haven - Softcover

Lane, Kit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877703036 ISBN 13: 9781877703034

Publisher: Pavilion Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Saugatuck Maritime Series, Book 4. A chronological listing of shipwrecks on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan 1821 to 1980. Illustrated with many vessel photographs and drawings.

About this title

About the Author:

Kit Lane, a Michigan native, graduated from Michigan State University and received an MLS degree from Western Michigan University. She and her husband, Art, are former owners of the Commercial Record and Fennville Herald, weekly newspapers near Lake Michigan's eastern shore. Other newspaper work includes stints with the Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press, Birmingham Eccentric and Daily Tribune of Royal Oak, Michigan. In addition to the other three volumes of the Saugatuck Maritime Series, Lane has written several local histories of the Saugatuck area and biographies of two prominent Michigan pioneers, Lucius Lyon: An Eminently Useful Citizen and John Allen: Michigan's Pioneer Promoter. The Lanes live in Douglas near Lake Michigan.

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"and finally by the aid of a ray of the setting sun, and two or three miles to the north and west of the wreck, a spot was seen and towards it the Glenn steamed. A realization of what that speck proved to be will never be erased from the minds of those who saw it. It was a fragile raft . . . held together only with chafing ropes, entirely submerged with almost every sea, and still in its fragile grasp holding the lives of eight persons. . . "

"The tug continued to pound upon the bar, slowly working over, sea after sea sheeting across her. In the midst of all the hurly-burly, the spectators on shore were astonished to see a young fellow get up quietly out of the surf and walk coolly streaming with water to a neighboring fire. it was one of the sailors from the Protection. He had put on a life-preserver, plunged overboard, and, by one chance in a million, reached the shore."

About this edition

• Publisher: Pavilion Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1877703036
• ISBN 13: 9781877703034
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192