On December 7th, 1909 at 10:43 am the Steamship Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 set sail from Conneaut, Ohio for Port Stanley Ontario, Canada.
This daily run was expected to take a little over 5 hours.

Shortly after their departure a massive storm bore down on Lake Erie dropping the temperature from 40°F to 10° F in less than 24 hours.

On December 12th lifeboat #4 containing the frozen bodies of 9 crew members was found by the ship Commodore Perry.

To this day almost 100 years later the ship Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 has never been seen again.
What befell that ship and crew is the motivation for this web site.