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The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was first noticed on Thursday, November 6 on the western side of Lake Superior, moving rapidly toward northern Lake Michigan.The weather forecast in The Detroit News predicted "moderate to brisk" winds at the Great Lakes with occasional rain on Thursday night or Friday for the upper lakes (except southern Lake Huron) and fair-to-unsettled conditions for the lower ...
Timmins, Ontario Central Canada 73 to 200 1912 April 15: Sinking of the RMS Titanic: Shipwreck Atlantic Ocean, off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland Atlantic Canada 1490-1635 1912 June 30: Regina Cyclone: Tornado Regina, Saskatchewan: Prairies 28 1913 November: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913: Meteorological storm Ontario: Central Canada 250+ 1914 ...
SS James Carruthers was a Canadian Great Lakes freighter built in 1913. The ship was owned by the St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam and Navigation Company of Toronto, Ontario, with the official registry number 131090. The James Carruthers was lost 9 November 1913 on Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The crew of 22 perished with the ...
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 (historically referred to as the "Big Blow", the "Freshwater Fury", and the "White Hurricane") was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada, from November 7 to 10, 1913. The storm was most powerful on November 9 ...
Storm-force winds and heavy snows accompanied the cyclone's passage. The storm, named after the Mataafa wreck, ended up destroying or damaging about 29 vessels, killing 36 seamen and causing shipping losses of $3.567 million (1905 dollars) on Lake Superior. [15]
Pages in category "1913 in Ontario" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... List of shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm; T.
The storm comes up fast. Sunny is cooking on the Titus Brown when she feels a lurch. The lake is still calm and the sky clear, so she believes they’ve hit a sand bar; a porter identifies it as a ...
1913 Great Lakes Storm of 1913: Blizzard/Storm Great Lakes, Ontario Estimate is for both Canadian and U.S. fatalities 238 1797 HMS Tribune: Shipwreck Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia 237 1863 [15] SS Anglo Saxon: Shipwreck Cape Race, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland Allan Line shipwreck 229 1998 Swissair Flight 111: Plane crash St. Margarets Bay ...