Lake Fury

01/12/2024

Looking for something to do this weekend when the snow flies? Build a warm fire, get a cup o' cocoa, and work on your spring/summer plans with me. You can also put on my new podcast! My current calendar is up at https://www.shipwreckpodcast.com/ricmixterappearances

12/19/2022

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBM6UcHLVzJgP6G1aqIiEtg

Maritime and aviation history are a highlight of this channel, featuring products from www.lakefury.comShipwrecks including the Edmund Fitzgerald, Carl D Bra...

10/04/2022

09/23/2022

Chris flies through the Lower Harbor dock remains at Marquette. So much history here- and the plan is to make it a very unique public space.

09/20/2022

I love sharing stories with young historians! Bindi joined us for a standing-room only crowd in Michigan's smallest city. She loves maritime history and so do I! Follow my tour schedule at www.shipwreckpodcast.com/ricmixterappearances

01/03/2022

11/18/2021

You can find Jim Clary's interpretation of the disaster at https://www.jclary.com/carl-d-bradley-wreck
or listen to the eyewitnesses who were there in my exclusive podcast www.shipwreckpodcast.com

04/21/2021

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbPMTzFVbpLf1l04kq9iARv410G5Cl4O6

Here are Ten Things You Didn't Know about the Great Lakes most famous shipwreck!

12/08/2018

https://soundcloud.com/ricmixter/mixtories-episode-1-equinoctal-storm-of-1872-featuring-wes-oleszewski

Shipwreck researcher Ric Mixter dives into the history of the Great Storms on the Great Lakes. Today's story features the forgotten storm of 1872, which took 60 ships and over 40 lives. Lake Huron w

06/08/2018

D-Day +2 June 8 1944. The USS Glennon hits a mine and a Michigan-built destroyer es**rt is sent in to help. The USS Rich instead hits three more mines, and is sent to the bottom with over 100 sailors.

11/09/2017

at this time (2:15 p.m.) - 1975- With a load of 26,116 long tons of taconite pellets, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald left the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1 in Superior, Wisconsin.

02/09/2017

Etruria was launched on this day in 1902 into the Saginaw River at Bay City. It only sailed for three seasons- a career cut tragically short by a foggy collision in 1905. All the crew made it off the boat, and the ship was discovered by NOAA 106 years later.

12/24/2016

A Christmas Eve Storm in 1979 sank the EM Ford. The cement had to be chipped out of the hold and the ship had one of the longest careers ever on the lakes (built in 1898). Enjoy the slideshow with pictures courtesy Manse collection and Boatnerd.

12/12/2016

Remember that anchor brought up from the Detroit River a few weeks ago? It was dropped there because the steamer Greater Detroit didn't have steam to pick it up. The 6,000 pound anchor was cut loose and the ship was set afire to gut the woodwork on this date in 1956. After it cooled it was cut up across the river in Canada. Archive pics from Reuther Library.

12/09/2016

Lost at Bay City 1990

12/09/2016

13 men had to be rescued on this date in 1939 when the JR Sensibar was being towed from Chicago. The tow line snapped in a storm and the ship ran aground just south of Grand Haven. Ironically.. the Sensibar was named for a man famous for moving beach sand. Jacob Sensibar leveled dunes to create Gary Indiana, and was famous for creating much of the beach area around Chicago. One article said this was the last time the breeches buoy was used for rescue on the Great Lakes!

12/08/2016

17 lives were lost after Westmoreland succumbed to a blizzard in 1854.