#history #disaster
On the 7th of May, 1965, a vessel from the Bradley Fleet and a Norwegian Freighter collided in the Straits of Mackinac. The Great Lakes ore freighter began to take on water at a rapid rate. But inexplicably, the ship turned in the wrong direction and sank 3 miles to shore, after being hit just 1 mile from shore. Here is the strange story.

Thanks to Mark Sprang at the Great Lakes Historical Archives at Bowling Green State University.


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Cited Sources:
The Cedarville Conspiracy: Indicting U.S. Steel by L. Stephen Cox
Mayday! Tragedy at Sea by James L. Hopp
The Wheelsmen by Ric Mixter
Shipwrecks of the Straits of Mackinac by Dr. Charles E. Feltner & Jeri Baron Feltner

Marine Board of Investigation Report on the Collsion between the SS Cedarville, ON 226492 and the Norwegian MV Topdalsfjord, ON 36485, in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan 7 May 1965 with the resultant ssinking of the SS Cedarville and loss of life


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