Interrupted Journey: The Saga of the Steamer Atlantic

Dr. David Frew. Erie: Erie County Historical Society, 2004. 179 pp. On August 20, 1852 at 2:30 am the steamship Atlantic and the Ogsdenberg collided in Lake Erie 20 miles north of Erie, Pennsylvania while carrying a full compliment of three hundred passengers. Author David R. Frew pulls three narrative strands through two centuries to get one great story that stretches from the shores of the North Sea to the bottom of Lake Erie. Available in paperback only.