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“We Are Holding Our Own”: The Last Voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Raymond on July 24, 2026

A large ore freighter battling towering waves in a dark storm on a Great Lake, rendered in sumi-e ink wash

On a storm-lashed November night in 1975, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes vanished from radar without a single distress call, taking all 29 men aboard. This is the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The Ship That the World Forgot: The MV Doña Paz and the Deadliest Peacetime Shipwreck in History

Raymond on February 10, 2026

A crowded passenger ferry glowing with light on a calm sea at dusk, painted in a minimalist sumi-e style

It killed more people than the Titanic and the Lusitania combined, and you have probably never heard its name. The story of the MV Dona Paz is the deadliest peacetime disaster in maritime history, and a portrait of everything that can go wrong at once.

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