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Whaleback Freighter is Muskegon's Most Famous Shipwreck
Season 2 · Episode 2

Whaleback Freighter is Muskegon's Most Famous Shipwreck

Muskegon's Most Famous Shipwreck

Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals

December 27, 202029m 13s

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Show Notes

Headlines originally read the entire crew of the whaleback Henry Cort were killed when they hit the north break wall in Muskegon. They were thankfully wrong and the captain and engineer provide a detailed look at their final voyage in the thick of a November gale in 1934.

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