Loss of the Chicora, The

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, the hearts that watched her going, ever smaller, smaller growing, Out upon the seeming shore of waters glad and free" eventually watched her fade. "Here's a sigh for the Chicora, for the broken, sad Chicora."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (MidwestFolklore)
KEYWORDS: ship wreck
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Jan 21, 1895 - Disappearance of the Chicora on Lake Michigan
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, David D. Anderson, "Songs and Sayings of the Lakes," Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 1962) p. 12, "()Oh, the hearts that wathed her going, ever smaller, smaller growing" (1 text)
NOTES [70 words]: According to the site michiganshipwrecks,org, the Chicora was a Lake Michigan steamship built in 1892 and lost in 1895 in a sudden storm. The site calls her loss "the single greatest mystery on Lake Michigan"; the wreck up to this time has not been found.
The site lists 23 crew members lost with the ship. Many of them were from Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan; those towns probably felt the loss significantly. - RBW
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File: MWFC012A

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