Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "SS Daniel J. Morrell" in English language version.
With Edward Y. Townsend longest vessel on the Great Lakes (until Kerr class of 1907 – superseded Morgan class of earlier in 1906).
"THE WEIRD thing" about the 12,000-ton Morrell, said a Coast Guard spokesman, was "there was no distress signal." Winds up to 60 miles an hour and wave 20 feet high lashed the Morrell and she apparently sank without radioing an S.O.S.
Norm Bragg, a watchman and survivor of the wreck of the Henry Steinbrenner in Lake Superior in 1953, tells Hale and a couple other sailors that the freighter has buckled in the 20-25 foot swells and may have lost its bottom.
