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Upside-Down and Lost: The Argus Vanished in the 1913 Lake Huron Storm
Upside-Down and Lost: The Argus Vanished in the 1913 Lake Huron Storm
A single November weekend in 1913 swallowed eight ships on Lake Huron and left one wreck upside down on the bottom for fifty-nine years; the Argus lay two hundred and thirty feet deep with no survivor, no final radio call, and a crew whose number was never officially recorded. How did a modern steel freighter built for seven thousand long tons end up inverted on the lake floor, and why were the men aboard reduced to twenty-five-dollar recovery bounties?
In this episode, we recount the Argus's construction, her string of…
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