United States Great Lakes Pilot
United States Great Lakes Pilot

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Published: 1976

Total Pages: 656

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Pilots supplement the navigational information shown on the nautical charts and are based upon field inspections conducted by the National Ocean Survey, information published in Notices to Mariners, and the report from NOAA survey vessels, other Government agencies, State and local governments, Canadian Ministry of Transport, maritime and pilotage associations, port authorities, mariners, and others.

Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes: A History of Murder and Misfortune
Death & Lighthouses on the Great Lakes: A History of Murder and Misfortune

Author: Dianna Higgs Stampfler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1467149950

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The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes. Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains found weeks later. A newly hired and some say depressed keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County slit his own throat after a consultation with a local butcher about the location of the jugular vein. A smallpox outbreak in the late 1890s led to the tragic death of a lighthouse hired hand on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Join author Dianna Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.