51st Annual Blessing of the Fleet at Mariners' Church of Detroit

ISMA Grand President Capt. Joseph Walters, with his brother Bob Walters of Indianapolis, pose in front of the Octorora bell.
Their father, John Walters, a deceased member of NE Michigan Lodge No. 19, crafted the bell's decorative rope which has 29 turkheads in honor of the 29 men lost on the S/S Edmund Fitzgerald