2. M. Fairbanks

3. Named after chairman of the insurance company that owned her

4. Length: 729 feet (222.2 m) Width: 75 feet (22.7 m) Draft: 39 feet (11.9 m) Displacement: 8686 tons Rated speed: 14 knots Fuel: 72,000 gallons (273 m³) fuel oil Capacity: 26,600 tons (24 100 t) Built: River Rouge, Michigan, 1958

7. Worst disaster on Great Lakes in 11 years Just north of Whitefish Point in southeast Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 Biggest of 6,000 shipwrecks on Great Lakes in 400 years

8. yellow dive suit is called a "newt suit" used in the recovery of the ship's bell

9. Wreck found by U.S. navy sonar four days later upright bow section, approximately 275 feet long inverted stern section, about 253 feet long First dive expedition in '94 spotted ship 160 metres down Second dive in 1995 retrieved the ship's bell.

10. MF

11.  hatches  strain of winds  ten-metre waves  broke in two  struck a reef that was misplaced on marine charts

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