Freelance content writer and web developer. Fascinated by shipwrecks and love the history. Check us out at candidbadgercreations.com

Freelance content writer and web developer. Fascinated by shipwrecks and love the history. Check us out at candidbadgercreations.com

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A Hero on the SS Phoenix

A Hero on the SS Phoenix

“Fire! Fire!” David Blish awoke with a start. Fire was always dangerous in the 1800s, but out on Lake Michigan, in the dead of night and on a wooden steamship, it could be a death sentence. Footsteps pounded back and forth outside of his cabin door. Scrambling to get...

At least 1000 Shipwrecks in Lake Michigan

At least 1000 Shipwrecks in Lake Michigan

Since the 1600s, the Great Lakes have been a link between North America and Europe. The French, English and Spanish all claimed various parts of the lakes at one point or another. Exploration moved westward, and in its wake followed settlement that grew into commerce....