CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in late-season stormy weather.

More than 6,000 ships are estimated to have met their end on the Great Lakes.

Among them is the SS Daniel J. Morrell , which sank in Lake Huron on Nov. 29, 1966 during a storm. Only one of the 29 crew members, Dennis Hale, survived. He died in 2015 in Ashtabula at age 75.

The SS Carl D. Bradley left Buffington, Indiana on Nov. 17, 1958, on what was to be its last trip of the season, according to the Presque Isle County Historical Museum in Rogers City, Michigan. It sank in Lake Michigan. Thirty-three of the 35 on board perished. Most were from Rogers City.

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