Thomas Hume Shipwreck: The Schooner Lake Michigan Swallowed
Thomas Hume Shipwreck: The Schooner Lake Michigan Swallowed
On the morning of May 21, 1891, a three-masted schooner named the Thomas Hume slipped out of Chicago harbor, turned her bow north across the gray chop of southern Lake Michigan, and sailed off the edge of the known world. No distress signal. No wreckage. No bodies. She simply ceased to exist,...