14--PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY VISITORS’ AND RESOURCE GUIDE--2018
Memorial honors the crew of the Carl D. Bradley
The evening of Nov. 18,
1958, will be the 60th anniversary
of the sinking of the
freighter Carl D. Bradley.
The Bradley, traveling
-
diana around 9:30
a.m., Monday,
Nov. 17, and headed
up Lake Michigan
bound for the
Port of Calcite in
Rogers City.
Roland Bryan,
a sailor since
age 14, was the master.
This trip was the scheduled
to be the last one for the
season and the steamer was
going home.
The Bradley never made
freighter was on the bottom
of Lake Michigan and 33 of
the 35-man crew were succumbed
by the sea or missing.
Twenty-three Rogers City sailors
perished that fateful day,
leaving a stunned community
to mourn.
Each year, on or around
the anniversary date, the Great
Lakes Lore Maritime Museum
commemorates the tragedy
with a bell ringing
for each sailor lost.
The names
of each man lost
on the 638-foot
steamship are
read. Many of the
family members
attend and ring
the bell in honor of a loved
one.
John Scoles and John Janzen
dove the ruins and recovered
the Bradley’s bell bringing it to
the surface from the depths of
Lake Michigan and returned
it to Rogers City, where it was
restored and unveiled in a ceremony
held the weekend of
the 49th anniversary.
with the names of the lost crew
was placed back on the Bradley
two days after the original bell
was removed.
The recovered bell remains
on display at the museum.
Plus, there are news
clipping, historic photos and
video footage of the Bradley on
the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Sailors’ Memorial at Lakeside
Park is another place to
visit to honor those lost at sea.
The memorial, that includes
an actual freighter
propeller, was constructed in
memory of the lives lost on the
Bradley as well as the Cedarville
in 1965.
The memorial is located at
the intersection of East Michi-
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