When a 772-ton wooden schooner barge named Ironton collided with a wooden freighter loaded with 1,000 tons of grain and sank in Lake Huron on Sept. 26, 1894, its seven-man crew tried to escape on a lifeboat.
But no one untied the rope that secured the lifeboat to Ironton. Five crew members died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/us/shipwreck-lake-huron.html
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