"LUDINGTON, MI - ...The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan. 
And while many ships ran aground and others were damaged that day, only three freighters sank.
All three met their end along the same stretch of the lake, in an arc from Little Sable Point south of Pentwater up to Big Sable Point north of Ludington.
- The lost ships on that Nov. 11 holiday included the Novadoc, an English-built 252-foot steel freighter that had left Chicago hours before dawn and was bound for Ontario with a load of powdered coal. It carried 19 Canadian crewmen.
- The second ship was the 420-foot William B. Davock, ferrying a load of coal from Erie, Pennsylvania to Chicago.
- Trailing the Davock downbound on Lake Michigan was the slightly smaller Anna C. Minch. The 380-foot freighter was carrying cargo from Ontario to Chicago. The Minch’s Canadian crew included the wheelsman’s 15-year-old son brought on to work as a deckhand and a married couple working as stewards...Read all.
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