Lost at Sea Mystery Cache

The cache is located in central Yuba City. You can drive within fifty of it, after solving the puzzle below.

1. When they left fully loaded for ________ (-1)
2. Old Michigan steams like a young man's _______
3. When the skies of _________ turn gloomy (2nd letter)
4. The ship was the pride of the __________ side
5. And later that night when the ship's _____ rang
6. If they'd put ___ more miles behind her (-2)
7. at ___ pm a main hatchway caved in
8. Lake _________ rolls on, Superior sings
9. They may have _____ deep and took water
10. And a wave broke _____ a railing
11. The legend lives on from the __________ on down
12. With a load of ______ ore 26,000 tons more
13. And farther below Lake ________
14. In the face of a _________ west wind

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.