Shipwreck!
My brother-in-law, took me out onto the inland sea for a look at a shipwreck the other day. Hopefully this series of images gives one an idea of our experience, bobbing and weaving over it.
The SS Novadoc broke in half on Armistice Day, November 11th 1940. [Those "gales of November" predate the ones that would doom the Edmund Fitzgerald thirty-five years and a day later. We are visiting the Novadoc site nearly eighty-four years after the fateful day.]
Two other ships went down that same day with total loss of crews. The result was better for the Novadoc with seventeen men rescued—by a local fisherman. Unfortunately, two were lost, cooks of the ship, who were washed overboard. For the history of this event, and some better pictures, please go here.
The location is about five miles north of the Little Sable Point Lighthouse, near the Silver Lake Sand Dunes. Thanks to my guide for finding the wreck and maneuvering the two-person kayak while I tried to photograph with a little underwater camera.
Ten images by Richard Koenig; taken July 18th 2024.
