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Keynote Address, Evening Dinner Program
"Sole Survivor"
Dennis Hale
Of the Wreck of the Daniel J. Morrell on its last voyage, November 1966


In the early morning hours of November 29, 1966, during a 65 mph gale on Lake Huron , the 603-foot vintage Morrell broke in half and sank with the loss of 28 lives. Dennis Hale is the only survivor of that disaster.