In the final moments before the Arlington sank into the waves during a spring storm on Lake Superior, its crew, safely aboard another ship, watched as their captain, Frederick “Tatey Bug” Burke, stood alone near the pilothouse on the doomed freighter.
He reportedly waved — then went down with the ship.
Researchers recently discovered the wreck of the Arlington, which sank on May 1, 1940, more than 600 feet deep in Lake Superior, about 35 miles from Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.
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