Periodic additions to the records are not expected. The collection was the gift of William Ratigan (donor no. Much of his career, after leaving NBC, was devoted to his literary endeavors as a writer and publisher. Ratigan began his career in the news division of NBC, first in Denver, then during World War Two as supervisor of NBC's war correspondents and commentators for the Pacific Theater.Ī prolific writer, Ratigan was the author of several books, many of them on Michigan themes, including Great Lakes shipwrecks, the Mackinac Bridge, Michigan folklore, the building of the Soo Canal among others. Title: Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals Author: Ratigan, William/ Weidenaar, Reynold H. Charlevoix, Michigan resident, novelist and historian of Great Lakes shipwrecks, the Mackinac Bridge, folklore, and other subjects correspondence, manuscripts. He later went back to college receiving his M.A. He attended the University of Detroit, 19, and graduated from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga in 1935. William Ratigan was born in Detroit, Michigan.
The photographs in the collection are of shipping and boating at Charlevoix, Michigan, of Charlevoix boat builder, Roy Ranger, of construction of the Mackinac Bridge, of the Sault Sainte Marie Canal, and of other topics related to Ratigan's writing interests. Eerdmans, Marianne Moore, Milo Quaife, David B. There are letters in the collection from William B.
Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad is as good a musical narrative as ever was written about such an event.The William Ratigan collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts of his books, research and reference files on topics of interest to him, and photographs. The Edmund Fitzgerald was indeed trying to make the relative shelter of Whitefish Bay when all radio contact ceased. The relative shallowness of the lakes helps produce mountainous waves, and the relative smallness of the lakes – compared to oceans, of course – makes it hard to run around bad weather. Odd as it may seem at first, storms on the great lake are often more treacherous than storms on the high seas. It is essentially impossible to sail the great lakes and avoid sailing through gales and tempests. She was equipped with the most sophisticated navigational and communications systems and she was built specifically to ply the great lakes, even in stormy weather. When the Edmund Fitzgerald was launched in 1958, she was the largest vessel on the great lakes, and one of the fastest. In the 1991 addendum to his 1960 classic Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals, William Ratigan pretty much agrees with Gordon Lightfoot’s lyric in his 1976 memorial musical tribute to the tragedy, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, that “she may have broke deep and took water.” Though the ship was found in two halves in the Spring of 1978, consensus is that it broke as it settled the 600 feet to the bottom.
It was forty years ago today that Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew of twenty-eight perished in the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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