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29, 1902, the 146-foot wooden schooner barge Bay City was anchored off Alpena awaiting a load of lumber when a fierce south wind whipped across Thunder Bay. The force caused the ship to drag ...

The schooner-barge Chieftain’s remains still lie in the Saginaw River near where the Cass Avenue Bridge once stood, its wooden ribs poking out of the water as though reaching for the heavens above.