Life is so tough ....you needed little < snip > markers to read an "excerpted" article properly.
I'm so sorry.
Posted on 07/20/2005 7:44:23 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
DULUTH -- For more than 90 years it was a secret Lake Superior wouldn't tell: the deep, dark place where it had entombed the 239-foot Great Lakes freighter Benjamin Noble and its crew of 20 men.
Its captain, 31-year-old John Eisenhardt of Milwaukee, worried in a letter to his sister that the vessel was overloaded, making it unstable, according to "Lake Superior Shipwrecks" by Julius F. Wolff. The trip was Eisenhardt's first as captain. It became his last.
As the vessel crossed Lake Superior, one of the worst spring storms ever to strike the big lake was gathering -- with winds of at least 64 miles per hour. From a distance, the captain of another vessel saw a smaller ship's lights disappear at about 3 a.m. By that afternoon, hatch covers, oars and other flotsam from the Noble were washing up on Minnesota Point in Duluth.
Last Halloween, wreck hunters Jerry Eliason and Randy Beebe of Duluth, Ken Merryman of Fridley and Kraig Smith of Rice Lake, Wis., were scanning the bottom about 10 miles off the shore near Two Harbors.
They were looking for the Robert Wallace, a wooden steamer that went down in 1902. They thought the structure their side-scan sonar detected half-buried in the muddy bottom more than 300 feet down was the Wallace.
But when they lowered an underwater camera, they discovered a hull made of steel, not wood. Then they caught glimpses of the cargo: steel rails.
In western Lake Superior, only one missing steel vessel was loaded with rails when it went down: the Benjamin Noble. Eliason considered the Noble the Holy Grail or Loch Ness monster of wrecks, half history, half legend, a hidden crypt for 20 men.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
He has a valid point. If you make any changes to an article in posting, even an excerpt, those should be indicated.
Amazing...
Stop by the 10,000 records and books store in downtown Duluth. See if the big redhead ex-exotic dancer still works there.
Oh so that is what she was.. I always wondered, have not been in there sense I left, I'll be sure and it it again.
it's even cooler to drive across.Dang I wish I could post a pic.
I was asking for a simple courtesy. You need not get snotty.
Sadly, the effects of gravity had done their worst.
Don't think it was Carlson's. They sold used LPs, magazines and a lot of dusty old stuff. Yeah, the place was freaky and you could catch a whiff of pachouli from time to time...
too bad ;(..
She still wears her hair in a very tight bun, tho.
I'm so sorry.
we got history.
i'll freepmail you how to do it...its really not tough
that's the place..
got it thanks again
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