Lost Mariners Remembrance

Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit, MI
November 10, 2022

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The Lost Mariners Remembrance program was held at Dossin Museum on the evening of Thursday, November 10, 2022. Several members of Detroit Lodge No. 7 were active participants in the ceremony, including Joel Stone, Luke Clyburn, Mike Nall, Pat Beard, Ray Oset, Joel Hepola, Julie Cortis-Redfield and Scott Reynolds.

Participating in the Honor Guard were James Weakley, President of Lake Carriers' Association; Capt. Brad Kelly of the U.S. Coast Guard, Sector Detroit; Constable Brian Kukhta, RCMP Windsor Shiprider; Capt. Luke Clyburn, President of the Noble Odyssey Foundation; and Capt. Mike Nall, President of I.S.M.A. Detroit Lodge No. 7. 

Detroit Lodge No. 7 members participated as follows:

Joel Stone, retired Marine Curator at Dossin Museum, gave introductory remarks about the Lantern Ceremony at the Edmund Fitzgerald anchor memorial Grand 1st Vice President Luke Clyburn and Mike Nall, President of Detroit Lodge No. 7, served in the Honor Guard.

Luke Clyburn and Mike Nall participated in the wreath laying ceremony and tossed flowers on the Detroit River in honor of departed mariners.

Ray Oset, Secretary-Treasurer of Detroit Lodge No. 7, served as one of the buglers playing Taps.
Joel Hepola and Julie Cortis-Redfield  crewed the mailboat J.W. Westcott II, one of the vessels in the flotilla.
Scott Reynolds piloted the Detroit Fireboat Curtis Randolph, also in the flotilla

The Memorial Wreath which was placed on the Detroit River was provided by Detroit Lodge No. 7.

The program included:
           a Lantern Vigil at the Edmund Fitzgerald Anchor,
           a musical program titled "Ballads of Great Lakes Mariners" by Lee Murdock,
           a memorial wreath laying ceremony on the Detroit River and
           a Lost Vessel Tribute presentation titled "Terror and Heroism on the paddle wheeler Atlantic (1848)" given by Michael Nagle


 
1
Luke Clyburn prepares to throw one
 of 29 roses into the Detroit River
2

Ray Oset performs Taps for the event
3
Honor Guard (Constable Kukhta, Capt. Kelly, Luke Clyburn,
Mike Nall and James Weakley) prepare to hand
off memorial wreath to Coast Guard vessel
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Rev. Paul Woolley of Sarnia Ontario gives a benediction
- memorial wreath on the left;
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Joel Stone gives historical background of the event to
the video zoom audience at the Fitzgerald anchor

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Ray Oset, Patrick Beard, Mike Nall, Luke Clyburn
pose in the museum's shipmodel gallery

 

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