On November 10 the Dossin Great Lakes Museum and the Great Lakes Maritime Institute will hold a special remembrance for the 40^th Anniversary of the loss of the Great Lakes freighter Daniel J. Morrell. From 5:30 - 8:00 pm the evening events will recall that sailors who sail the inland seas, are sometimes placed in peril. 

Tickets are $10.00, available at the door

The events will begin at 5:30 by placing of 29 illuminated lanterns around the anchor of  the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald that rests in the yard of the Dossin Museum on Belle Isle.  At  6:00 pm the Great Lakes balladeer Lee Murdock will begin a concert in the DeRoy Hall Auditorium.

At 6:55 pm the names of the lost crew members will be read and ship's bells will be tolled. 7:05 pm a wreath is taken to the rivers edge 7:10 pm  The wreath is cast into the river.

At 7:15 pm Dennis Hale tells his tale of surviving the sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell on November 29, 1966.

8 pm Rev. Ingalls Jr. says for the passing of all lost mariners of the Lakes. 8:15 pm  Lee Murdock performs Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald