Lake Superior’s Greatest Mystery: SS Kamloops

On December 7th, 1927 the Canadian package freighter SS Kamloops vanished during a snowstorm on Lake Superior northwest of Isle Royale. For nearly 50 years her fate remained a mystery until the discovery of her wreck in 1977 offered a window into the grizzly fate of the Kamloops and her crew.

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Sources:
Too Much Sea For Their Decks by Michael Schumacher
https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/historyculture/ss-kamloops.htm
https://iri.forest.mtu.edu/Shipwrecks/Pages/Kamloops.htm
https://www.sootoday.com/columns/remember-this/a-shipwreck-a-young-woman-and-a-message-in-a-bottle-1473946
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-captain-brian-montreal-gaze/153723349/
https://brucemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Grafton%2C%20Jennet%20%28"Nettie"%29
https://brucemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/archive/32240675-B6EA-4CD9-9207-287502195821

Wreck footage: https://youtu.be/j04bfGuNVzE?si=IRMFJd5Al-gMECNI

Chapters:
00:00 SS Kamloops
3:11 Chapter 1: A Sturdy Workhorse
6:43 Chapter 2: Pushed Too Far
10:01 Chapter 3: The Rocks of Isle Royale
13:35 Chapter 4: Frozen in Agony
16:49 Chapter 5: Messages From the Dead

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