Shipwrecks & Lost Treasures: Great Lakes - Book

Twenty-one riveting stories with illustrations of ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes including British gunboat, The USS Niagara, Civil War steamer Island Queen and, of course, the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Michael J. Varhola's Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes, published by Globe Pequot in 2007, tells 21 stories of ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes.

The wrecks include the British gunboat HMS Speedy in 1804, the American Navy brig USS Niagara in 1820 and the Civil War steamer Island Queen in 1864 to the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. Illustrations accompany the stories, and the book makes a good read for anyone who boats on or lives near the lakes.