I had taken the "she may have dove deep and took water" line as being like the bronco would sink. If the hatches are not fully secured on a ore carrier, the bow going under water can lead to a quite sudden sinking. Water goes into the hold via the forward hatch and the bow suddenly gets a lot heavier.musher0 wrote:"Superior, they said,
Never gives up her dead
When the gales of November
come early."
That ship was the Edmund Fitzgerald, a laker, not the Titanic.
And the title of the song is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
It appears that this is not what happened. Long after the song was written the wreck was found. It appears that the waves were so tall that the bottom of the ship hit a big tall rock.
I still maintain that nobody is going to make a movie or a song about the sinking of the bronco.