Tony Cager, 53, from Glasgow, had worked on the ship for 12 years and held the party on the Waverley's sister ship at Bristol docks.
Alger County is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,601. Its county seat is Munising. The Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is located within the county.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,695 square miles (4,390 km2), of which 572 square miles (1,480 km2) is land and 1,123 square miles (2,910 km2) (66%) is water. Alpena County is in the northeast of the mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula of Michigan.