The SS Carl D. Bradley was a self-unloading Great Lakes freighter built in 1927 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. Owned by the Michigan Limestone division of U.S. Steel and operated by the Bradley Transportation Line, the vessel was traveling upbound on northern Lake Michigan with water ballast on the evening of November 18, 1958, after unloading stone at Gary, Indiana the previous day, when it encountered a storm with 65 mile per hour winds and 20-foot waves. About 12 miles southwest of Gull Island, around 5:30pm, the hull began to break in two. The first mate sent three mayday transmissions before power lines aboard were severed, and although an order to abandon ship was given, the vessel sank before lifesaving craft could be effectively launched. United States Coast Guard air and surface units and other commercial vessels searched through the night and into the next morning. At 8:25 am on November 19, the USCG Cutter Sundew found the forward life raft 5 miles northeast of Gull Island with two survivors aboard, First Mate Elmer H. Fleming, 43, and Deck Watchman Frank L. Mays, 26. During the night and following days, the Sundew and other vessels recovered 18 bodies, many taken to city hall in Charlevoix, Michigan for family identification, and in all 33 crewmen lost their lives. In August 2007, divers John Scoles and John Janzen removed the Bradley's bell and returned it to Rogers City for restoration, and a memorial bell engraved with the names of the lost crew was placed back on the wreck two days later. The wreck site lies 160 degrees southeast and 23 miles offshore from this point.