Episode 78 - Marquette & Bessemer No. 2

Beyond the Breakers

Oct 03, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 37

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Episode description

This week we're on Lake Erie to discuss one of the Great Lakes' most enduring mysteries - the fate of the train ferry Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, lost in December 1909.

Sources:

Boyer, Dwight. Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes. Dodd, Mead, and Co. 1968.

"Captain Robert Rowan McLeod." History of the Great Lakes, https://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/GreatLakes/Documents/HGL2/default.asp?ID=s800

Feather, Carl E. "Still lost after all these years." Star Beacon, 27 May 2012. https://www.starbeacon.com/community/still-lost-after-all-these-years/article_afd3b3fe-63f3-5f20-989d-cc32ec3087b4.html

Johnston, Laura. "Phantom ship hides in Lake Erie." Cleveland.com, 05 Nov 2018. https://www.cleveland.com/news/erry-2018/11/e7fd7cda265617/phantom-ship-hides-in-lake-eri.html#incart_river_index

"The Marquette and Bessemer Dock and Navigation Company." Bessemer and Lake Erie Archives, https://blearchive.weebly.com/car-ferries.html

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