Lost Mariners' Remembrance
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Monday, November 10
6 p.m. EST



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This moving event takes place on the 34th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald. This year’s event commemorates the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2. This railroad car ferry set sail from Conneaut, Ohio on December 7, 1909. After encountering a fierce winter storm, the ship disappeared on Lake Erie, claiming 32 lives. The wreckage of this 350 foot ship loaded with 30 railroad cars full of coal has never been found. Since numerous search efforts have been attempted to find the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 over the past 100 years -- and failed -- it is considered the Holy Grail of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.

The schedule of events is as follows:
6 p.m. A lantern ceremony at the Fitzgerald anchor remembers both the crew of the Fitz and the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2.
6:15 p.m. Lee Murdock, the renowned Great Lakes balladeer, performs in DeRoy Hall.
7 p.m. Honor guard escorted to the river’s edge with the Lost Mariners memorial wreath.
7:02 p.m. Reading of the lost crew roster of the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2
7:03 p.m. U.S. Coast Guard helicopter escorts and lights up a flotilla of U.S. and Canadian vessels as they approach the museum to receive the wreath.
7:06 p.m. The Reverend Gregory McComas, assistant rector of Mariners Church, offers a prayer for the lost mariners.
7:10 p.m. The wreath honoring those lost on the Great Lakes is laid out in the river.
7:12 p.m. Presentation by guest speaker, Christopher Gillcrist, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Historical Society in Vermilion, Ohio, on the loss of the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2.
7:45 p.m. The event concludes with a memorial prayer and benediction by Rev. McComas, followed by Lee Murdock’s rendition of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

If you would like to attend in person please Click here to buy tickets or call (313) 833-1801.