The Wreck of the Daniel J. Morrell, Lake Huron’s Most Haunting Modern Shipwreck

When people think of Great Lakes shipwrecks, they often picture wooden schooners from the 1800s or famous disasters like the Edmund Fitzgerald. Yet one of the most shocking sinkings happened much later, in 1966, just beyond what many consider the northern boundary of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. The wreck of the Daniel J. Morrell occurred off Pointe Aux Barques in Lake Huron, only a short distance…