Whitefish Point Light - Michigan

Probably the smallest wreck ever on Lake Superior involved no ships at all - only a surfboat and two stranded fisherman. One afternoon in April 1933, a pair of Michigan sportsmen were very unhappily surprised to discover that the field of ice they were fishing had broken away from the mainland and drifted out onto the open lake. A Coast Guard surfboat raced across the lake to rescue the luckless anglers. Unfortunately, the boat was caught and crushed between two massive blocks of groaning ice, leaving three coastguardsmen marooned along with the fishermen. Eventually, the keeper of Whitefish Point Light Station managed to reach the stranded men and bring them back to the lighthouse.
[This message has been edited by Randy Kremer (edited 04-11-2002).]