Carl D. Bradley is a big freighter that sunk in northern lake Michigan 60 years ago and sits 360 to 380ft deep. This was an effort to push the slightly damaged ship for just one more trip that resulted in a tragedy. Frank Mays, one of the wreck’s survivors still alive, plans to tell his […]
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This is a very interesting interview with Frank Mays, now 85 years young, telling the story of his survival this day in 1958 as the big freighter Carl D. Bradley slipped underneath the waves during a November gale storm. Listen to the interview here… Shipwreck Explorers […]
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The Carl Bradley was the largest steel freighter on the great lakes in 1957 at a length of 639 feet. Ironically enough, the year she sank, 1958, was the same year the Edmund Fitzgerald (729 feet) was put into service and took the largest freighter of record from the Bradley. Read more…
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