On November 9-10, 1913 a Great Lakes storm sank eight large ore carriers drowning 270 sailors.
Nov 14, 1913, page 1 – The Daily Standard at Newspapers.com
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank under similar circumstances on November 10, 1975.
By 1913, 14,000 vessels had sunk on the Great Lakes
Nov 29, 1913, page 13 – The Ottawa Journal at Newspapers.com
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I have lived in Port Huron MI at the southern terminus of Lake Huron for over 40 years. The wide-spread fury and destruction of the storm of 1913 is well known around here. The Edmund Fitzgerald met her fate in a gale at the eastern end of Lake Superior in 1979. I would be skeptical that 14,000 ships had sunk by 1913 due to rough weather. I expect that number includes ships that both foundered on shoals or caught fire and sunk. Regardless, the false claim that climate change is making storms worse doesn’t hold water around here!
Another false climate change claim around here occurred in 2013 when Lake Huron water levels set record lows in two consecutive months. Most of the other lakes also had low levels around the same time. Climate alarmists said the Great Lakes were going down and would NEVER rise again! Well NEVER only lasted until 2020 when progressively higher water from 2014 to 2020 resulted in record high levels occurring in 8 consecutive months. BTW the other 10 record low monthly levels all occurred in 1964, I am not aware of any existential crisis claims back then.
Great Lake water levels are tracked by the US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) who produces monthly water level forecasts that include the historic highs and lows I’ve cited.
Also the other 4 record high monthly water levels were in 1986. The 8 record high levels set in 2020 broke the previous records that were all in 1986 and 1987. Hope that helps.