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Carl D. Bradley on 1958 Lake Michigan Chart

Carl D. Bradley on 1958 Lake Michigan Chart

$ 13.2

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Width (Inches): 24
  • Date of Creation: 1992
  • Print Surface: Paper
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Style: Illustration Art
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Listed By: Artist
  • Features: Signed
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Originality: Limited Edition Print
  • Quantity Type: Limited edition 300
  • Medium: Pen & Ink
  • Artist: Wesley Mutch
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Height (Inches): 14
  • Subject: Maritime

    Description

    At 6:30 PM on November 17, 1958 Captain Roland Bryan pulled the 623 foot Carl D. Bradley from the dock at Buffington, Indiana and started on the up bound shipping lane of Lake Michigan. The Bradley worked the stone trade for the Bradley Transportation Line , a division of U.S. Steel, and was returning in ballast to its home port of Rodgers City in north eastern lower Michigan on the shore of Lake Huron. It was the last leg of the last trip of the season. The lake was stormy and going was tough. As the Bradley sailed north, the southwest wind was gusting at up to 65 miles per hour. At 5:31 PM on the 18th, Capt. Bryan and Mate Elmer Fleming heard an unusual thud and turned to see the stern half of the ship rear up. Realizing that his ship breaking up, Capt. Bryan stopped his engines, rang the general alarm and ordered Fleming to radio a distress call. All along the Great Lakes radio operators heard Fleming's call: Mayday, Mayday, this is the Carl D. Bradley-we are sinking. Our location is 12 miles southeast of Gull Island." In the background you could hear Capt. Bryan telling his crew to get life jackets. At 5:45 PM radio contact was broken as the ship plunged to the bottom. All through the night the Coast Guard ships Sundew and Hollyhock, with the aid of aircraft and the German freighter Christian Sartori, searched for survivors-but to no avail. Finally at dawn on November 19th, a Coast Guard helicopter from Traverse City spotted a 8X10 foot raft with two survivors aboard. Lt. Commander Muth raced the Sundew to the location and sent the message, "Picked up two survivors on raft 17 degrees, 5.25 miles from Gull Island." They were Frank Mays, a deck watchman and Elmer Fleming, the Mate who originally made the Mayday Call. Tragically, they were the only survivors from a crew of 35 of which 26 were citizens of Rodgers City.
    The Bradly is printed on a 1958 chart of Lake Michigan, image size 14X24. The print was published in 1992, and like the others it is a signed and number limited edition.