Went Missing: Unsolved Great Lakes Shipwreck Mysteries

by Frederick Stonehouse

Trade paperback. Accounts of missing Great Lakes ships Photos.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

222 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Frederick Stonehouse has authored over thirty books on maritime history, many of them focusing on the Great Lakes and contributed to several others. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales are regional best sellers. Wreck Ashore, the U.S. Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes, won a national publishing award and is the predominant work on the subject. Another book, Haunted Lakes, Great Lakes Maritime Ghost Stories, Superstitions and Sea Serpents, has opened an entirely new genre in Great Lakes study. His book, Final Voyage, is the first Great Lakes shipwreck book for children.

He has been a consultant for both the U.S. National Park Service and Parks Canada and has been an "on-air" expert for National Geographic, History Channel and Fox Family, as well as many regional media productions. Awards for contributions to Great Lakes maritime history have been received from Underwater Canada, Our World Underwater, Marquette Maritime Museum and Marquette County Historical Society. He is also the recipient of the 2006 Association For Great Lakes Maritime History Award for Historic Interpretation. The Award is presented annually in recognition of an individual making a major contribution over many years to the interpretation of Great Lakes maritime history in furtherance of the goals of the Association. In addition he was named the Marine Historical Society of Detroit’s “2007 Historian of the Year.” The award is the result of election by past MHSD Historians and recognizes persons who have actively contributed to the study of Great Lakes history. He holds a Master of Arts degree in History from Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan.

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting. enjoyed it.

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very interesting accounts about ships that have gone missing on the Great Lakes. The good information is marred by poor writing. The fact that it has been reprinted eight times shows that people really want to read these accounts of the loss of ships and lives on the Great Lakes. The most interesting thing for me about the thirty shipwrecks in the book is that the cause of their sinking has never been solved.