Diving the “Swing Bridge”
David Gilchrist recently went scuba diving at the Welland Scuba Park’s Swing Bridge. The Montrose…
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Learn more about the SS Princess Sophia Disaster
On 25 October 1918, after grounding on Vanderbilt Reef in the Lynn Canal near Juneau,…
Locomotive’s sinking adds bizarre twist to Superior’s legend
Lake Superior has claimed a big toll of those who have challenged its fierce storms, icy waters and great depths. Most of its disasters involve ships. A few are aircraft pilots who come to grief over-flying the lake. But a freight train locomotive and its boxcars plunging off a rocky cliff into the lake may be unprecedented.
Locomotive’s sinking adds bizarre twist to Superior’s legend
“The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November…
The Princess Sophia Shipwreck
At 10 PM, October 23, 1918, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship, the SS Princess Sophia left port at Scagway, Alaska with 298 passengers, men, women and children, largely from Dawson City, Yukon, and a crew of 65.
The Princess Sophia Shipwreck
At 10 PM, October 23, 1918, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship, the SS Princess Sophia…