The Deadliest Storm in Great Lakes History | The White Hurricane of 1913

In November 1913, an inland lake killed more sailors in a single weekend than the open ocean took from this country all year. Two storm systems converged over the Great Lakes without warning, driving winds to ninety miles an hour, building waves past thirty-five feet, and swallowing twelve steel freighters whole. More than two hundred fifty men were lost. Almost all of them died in a single day. This is the story of the White Hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in the recorded history of the Great Lakes. It follows the ships that sailed into it, the men who survived it, and the ones who didn't, including a 500-foot freighter found floating upside down with no name, a diver who read the hull twice to be sure, and a federal marshal who dictated his last words into a bottle forty hours into the storm.