LARRY JORGENSEN first
became fascinated with Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and its unique
history while writing and reporting for television news in Green
Bay. However, his journey into that world of news had begun much
earlier in northern Wisconsin where he worked while in high school
for the weekly newspaper in Eagle River. Later he was employed by a
newspaper publisher in Milwaukee, and then on to radio and
television news in Texas and Louisiana, along with wire service and
freelance assignments. During all those years he looked forward to
return visits to the Keweenaw Peninsula. It was during one of those
visits Larry discovered the tale of the wreck of the “City of
Bangor”. It was learning of that little-known event that resulted in
his decision to create this written account that he hoped to share
the story of one of Lake Superior’s most unusual shipwrecks.
"Had not the
lifesaving crew from Eagle Harbor happened to see the crew
struggling on shore while they were on their way to another
rescue; had not the crew had the stamina to continue their
36-hour struggle from the place where they ran aground
several miles east of Copper Harbor; had not the people of
Copper Harbor, especially the Berg family (who had little
enough food for the winter) shared their home and provisions
with the starving, hypothermic crew, the death rate could
have been catastrophic.
Also in vivid detail, we read the story of how the cars were
salvaged and removed from the ship due to the efforts of
many people throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula to plow a road
where there wasn’t one, to transport gasoline to the cars,
drive them several at a time to Copper Harbor, open the road
to Calumet working from both ends, drive the cars to Calumet
to be loaded on a train back to Chrysler for repairs and
restoration, all of which took several months. The fact that
there were no deaths and almost all the vehicles were
rescued, makes this particular shipwreck one of the most
unique in the annals of Lake Superior. "
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