Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea

by Michael Schumacher

Book Overview

Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota's Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed the boat--which meant scrambling to rejoin the Morrell at its next stop or forfeiting a good chunk of his pay package. Seventy-two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816695210
• ISBN13: 9780816695218
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"