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Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea (Posthumanities) by Michael Schumacher is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 hours later, Hale would find himself clinging to a life raft alongside the frozen bodies of his crewmates in the violent waves of Lake Huron. The boat would not be reported missing for another twenty-seven hours and by the time the life raft was found, Dennis Hale would remain as the sole survivor of the wreck of the Daniel J. Morrell . This is life-and-death drama on the inland sea as only Michael Schumacher can tell it. In Torn in Two the great Lakes historian recreates the circumstances surrounding the terrible storm of November 29, 1966, that broke the mighty freighter in half, sending twenty-five of the Morrell ’s twenty-nine-man crew to their deaths and consigning the surviving four to the freezing raft where all but Hale would per

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Author
Michael Schumacher
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9780816695218
Category
history
Subjects
Anthropology, Fiction, Thriller
Rating
3.58 / 5 (11 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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