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Safe Ashore: The 1940 Storm

ONLINE: Ric shares candid interviews with the men who survived 126 mile per hour winds on Lake Michigan. A car ferry was grounded, a modern steel freighter flipped and a Canadian grain hauler was ripped in two. Four entire crews (including two fish tugs) were killed in the storm and over two dozen men were rescued by local fishermen (The Sinaloa and Novadoc crews) https://www.rctc.edu/business-workforce-education/life/

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The Armistice Day Storm of 1940