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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 load.


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In 1966, the SS Daniel J. Morrell was headed to Minnesota to pick up a shipment of ore when it sank on Lake Huron. Historian and author John DeBeck has made it his mission to carry on the legacy of the 28 men who lost their lives on the Morrell and its lone survivor Dennis Hale, his friend of 33 years.


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The story of the sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell is the story of two six-hundred-foot ships—the Morrell, and its sister ship, the Edward Y. Townsend.Both behemoths went into service in 1906 and both spent the next six decades hauling cargo on the Great Lakes, mostly uneventfully, except for a 1909 incident in which the Morrell collided with the Henry Phipps, another six-hundred-footer, at.


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Today, we explore the life of the Daniel J. Morrell, a freighter whose career spanned some 60 years on North America's Great Lakes — and whose fate was ident.


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Thursday, July 21, 2022 (Toledo, Ohio) - On Saturday, August 13, at 1 p.m., the National Museum of the Great Lakes will host a special lecture at Fifth Third Center Auditorium titled: Daniel J. Morrell: Lost but No Longer Forgotten.The presentation, given by Great Lakes marine historian John DeBeck, will share stories from his research about the loss of the Morrell as well as discuss new.


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That's exactly what happened to a 600-foot freighter named the Daniel J. Morrell, which split into two pieces and sank in the icy waters 18 miles north of the tip of the Thumb on Nov. 29, 1966, claiming the lives of 28 of the 29 crewmen on board.


Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell a tale of death, survival

The SS Daniel J. Morrell broke apart on the 29th of November in a similar fashion to the Carl D. Bradley not more than 10 years beforehand. In a similar storm in a similar fashion. But what was.


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In November of 1966, the Daniel J. Morrell broke in half in a strong storm on Lake Huron—taking with her 28 of the 29 crewmen. Only one of her crew lived to tell the story of what happened - Dennis Hale. In 2018, presenter John DeBeck began the research that would become his book The Daniel J. Morrell: Lost but No Longer Forgotten.DeBeck was a 33 year friend of Dennis Hale, who passed away.


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The SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter. The freighter was used for carrying bulk cargo such as iron ore, but when the 60-year-old ship sank, it was working with only ballast. Daniel J. Morell was designed and launched in 1906 by the West Bay City Ship Building Company, based in West Bay City, Michigan.


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It was 1966, and a ship called the Daniel J. Morrell was making its last run of the season, hauling steel across Lake Huron. The crew was eager to head home for Christmas. But one night, caught.


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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 into pop.


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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-year-old ship sank.


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The SS Daniel J. Morrell, a Great Lakes freighter that split in two and sank Nov. 29, 1966, killing 28 of its 29 crewmen. An Ashtabula resident, Dennis Hale, was the lone survivor.


The last known photo of the SS Daniel J. Morrell, taken in the Detroit River at 5pm on November

Marking the 55th anniversary of sinking of freighter Daniel J. Morrell Nov 30, 2021 10:20AM By Editor A photo of the last known picture of the Daniel J. Morrell taken by Emory Massman, Nov. 25, 1966, four days before the freighter sunk off the tip of Michigan's Thumb.


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Marking the 55th anniversary of sinking of freighter Daniel J. Morrell Sailor from St. Clair among 28 victims A photo of the last known picture of the Daniel J. Morrell taken by Emory.