Deadly Gamble: The Wreck of Schooner Levin J Marvel, The true story of Chesapeake Bay's worst sailing disaster

Hurricane Connie wobbled like a drunken pirate toward the mid-Atlantic coast of the U.S. In the late hours of August 11, 1955, Connie turned inland and began tracking a course up Chesapeake Bay. Here, the storm turned its fury on a three-masted schooner, the Levin J Marvel, with 27 crew and passengers who had been enjoying a pleasure cruise. That voyage would end in the Chesapeake's deadliest shipwreck.

The true story of the wreck of Levin J Marvel begins in the early days of passenger cruis...