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The Last Voyage of the Clemson: Vanished, Wreck Unfound, Mystery Deepens
The Last Voyage of the Clemson: Vanished, Wreck Unfound, Mystery Deepens
A single life jacket marked "D. M. Clemson" washed ashore at Crisp Point on December 10, 1908, and within days dozens of hatch covers, a cabin section, and wreckage showing signs of an unexplained explosion were floating between Crisp Point and Vermilion Point-yet no distress signal and no ship ever arrived. How did a 468-foot, state-of-the-art freighter vanish with 24 men and 8,000 long tons of coal on Lake Superior, leaving only scattered wreckage to answer the question?
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