Long Gone: The Story of the Marquette & Bessemer #2

Dr. David Frew. Erie: Erie County Historical Society, 2002. 257 pp. On December 7, 1909 a three hundred foot ship vanished without a trace during a winter storm. Author David R. Frew unravels details of the lost Marquette & Bessemer No. 2. The tragedy of the M&B No. 2 is seen as the Lake Erie quadrangle’s most perplexing shipwrecks. Frew takes a historic look into the coal delivery and commercial fishing business of the car ferry’s officers, crew and passenger. The story brings together hypothesis surrounding the probable underwater location of the Marquette and Bessemer No.2. Available in paperback only.