On the tenth of November, nineteen seventy-five, the largest ship on the Great Lakes was making her way across Lake Superior in one of the worst storms in the lake's recorded history. Another freighter was following her on radar a few miles behind. At around seven fifteen in the evening, her captain radioed that they were holding their own. Minutes later she was gone from the screen. There was no distress call, no lifeboat launched, no survivor. Twenty-nine men went down with her.

Tonight, drift slowly through her story — the shipyard that launched the biggest freighter on the lakes in nineteen fifty-eight, the iron ore runs she made for seventeen years, the November gale that caught her, the damage reported in her final hours, the ship that trailed her through the dark and lost her from radar, the search that found only debris, the wreck located in five hundred feet of water lying in two great pieces, and the long argument that has never been settled about what finally took her down. Let the tale carry you gently toward sleep.

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