Marine accidents

Several pages of notes and correspondence relating to damage to dock infrastructure and vessels.

The collection contains transcripts, exhibits, and supplementary items from the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation convened on November 18, 1975, eight days after the EDMUND FITZGERALD sank in Lake Superior with her entire crew of twenty-nine men. The purpose of the inquiry was to determine the causes of the tragedy and to examine safety procedures. Indexes are available for exhibits and testimony in addition to an index for each of the seven volumes of the transcript.

The Marsh and McLennan Marine Underwriters collection consist of Hull Claims Case Files, Personal Injury Case Files, Hull loss Records, Protection and Indemnity Loss Records, and Insurance Reviews, ranging from 1920 to 1973.

Accident reports and correspodnence filed in Duluth between 1971 and 1977 by a variety of vessels.

Accounts of the fire in Chicago that destroyed the George M. Morley, from the log of the Evanston Fire Department and one witness account.

Account of the conditions surrounding the sinking of the EDMUND FITZGERALD in Lake Superior, November 10, 1975. Delivered at a meeting of Wisconsin Marine Historical Society, Milwaukee, WI, November 7, 1986. Cooper was the captain of the ARTHUR M. ANDERSON at the time of the FITZGERALD's loss.