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There's a reason they say Lake Superior never gives up her dead. The largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, Lake Superior's cold and treacherous waters have claimed numerous lives. Here are three eerily similar stories of ships that vanished on Lake Superior: the SS Manistee, the SS Ira H. Owen, and the French minesweepers SS Inkerman, and SS Cerisoles.
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Sources:
Went Missing by Frederick Stonehouse
Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes by Dana Thomas Bowen
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/99-years-after-two-french-minesweepers-vanished-in-a-lake-superior-storm-a-new-search-aims-to-solve-the-mystery
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edmund_Fitzgerald_(ship,_1958)#/media/File:Edmund_Fitzgerald,_1971,_2_of_4.JPG
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Chapters:
00:00 Lake Superior
1:39 Rotten Wood: SS Manistee
10:00 Luck Runs Out: SS Ira H. Owen
15:39 Lost in Foreign Waters: Inkerman and Cerisoles
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