I'm gonna expose my inner #ship nerd and share my two favourite ships
First up is the Great Lakes Freighters, a legend in her own right m, the one and only SS Arthur M. Anderson.
To understand the Anderson you need to know a few things:
1. The Great Lakes are a huge commercial shipping area where massive Freighters transport ore and other raw materials up and down.
2. They are deadly. Many lives have been lost in terrible storms over the years such as The White Hurricane of 1913 when 250 died.
The Arthur M was built in 1952 and became the legend she is today on November 10th 1975. On that night a bad November gale was ripping up the lake when the Arthur M was accompanying the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald. The Fitz was a former Queen of Great Lakes, an unofficial title for the largest vessel. Fitz had proved herself popular with the people of the lakes since her launch in 1958.
But that stormy night would change everything.
The Fitzgerald wasn't doing so well, but she had handled storms before and her captain and crew were confident in the sturdiness of their enormous vessel. With their radar inoperable however they radioed the Anderson asking her to guide them with her operational radio. At 7:10pm the Anderson radioed the Fitz to ask how they were doing, the response "We are holding our own" was the last message ever received before the Firtz mysteriously plunged to the bottom of Lake Superior.
