On September 9th, 1910, the railroad car ferry SS Pere Marquette 18 mysteriously began taking on water during a routine voyage across Lake Michigan. After discovering the flooding, her crew went to work to try and save the ship. A fight they would eventually lose.
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00:00 SS Pere Marquette 18
2:09 Chapter 1: Great Expectations
5:18 Chapter 2: An Alarming Discovery
8:27 Chapter 3: Fighting to Save Her
12:06 Chapter 4: The Final Plunge
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