Gales of November A Look at the Storm that Sank the Edmund Fitzgerald
If you live in the Midwest, you've likely heard of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in November 1975 in Lake Superior, a tragedy that took 29 lives. Other than that, you might not know much more about the ship itself or the crew. For instance, do you know the interesting circumstances of its christening?
Photos The Edmund Fitzgerald remembered, 40 years after sinking The
The Edmund Fitzgerald sailed without incident until September 6, 1969, when she ran aground near the Soo Locks in Sault Sainte Marie,. In 1976, singer Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the ship and its crew in his haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." On July 4, 1995, the ship's 200-pound brass bell was recovered from the.
Remembrance marks anniversary of wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald
By Jill Halpin November 3, 2022 The Edmund Fitzgerald was a bulk carrier that sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, with the loss of all 29 crew members. The disaster was one of the worst in Great Lakes maritime history and remains a mystery to this day. What Was the Edmund Fitzgerald?
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
This timeline chronicles the last voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Edmund Fitzgerald, The 729-foot iron ore freighter, sank in stormy Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew members on board.
Photos The Edmund Fitzgerald remembered, 40 years after sinking
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 48 years ago on November 10, 1975. All hands were lost, and no one to this day knows definitively what caused the sinking of the Fitzgerald. Was the cause a shoal? Did the cargo shift?
22 Photographs Cataloging the Edmund Fitzgerald Disaster and the Dives
Remembering the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Nov. 10, 1975 in Lake Superior, in a violent storm on the lake. November can be a turbulent month for weather across Michigan.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald News
The 1975 tragedy took the lives of 29 men: sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands. The Fitzgerald tragedy was a loss affecting dozens of families and a countless number of friends and comrades of the shipping and freight industry. S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald is lost, but not forgotten.
Photos The Edmund Fitzgerald remembered, 40 years after sinking MPR News
The Edmund Fitzgerald was just 5 years old when a young Tom Walton was hired for his first real job as a porter on the largest ship on the Great Lakes. A dozen years later, the ship plunged to the bottom of Lake Superior, taking its 29 crew members with her.
Raising the Anchor of the Edmund Fitzgerald Detroit Historical Society
The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. Whitefish Point is the site of the Whitefish Point Light Station and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) has conducted three underwater.
Statewide events remember sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald
On the night of November 10, 1975, the iron ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald, sank in Lake Superior. Twenty-nine men died. The lake carrier was caught in one of the worst storms recorded on the Great Lakes. Like the folk song relates, the November gales came early on Lake Superior in 1975. A storm more fierce than even the most experienced.
On This Day Tragedy of the Edmund Fitzgerald Travel Through Time
Its mysterious demise inspired Gordon Lightfoot's hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), which helped make it the most famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes. In
Edmund Fitzgerald Legend Lives On
The Edmund Fitzgerald was a Great Lakes freighter that sank in a storm on November 14, 1975, and few understand what happened to cause the freighter to sink. The ship was carrying a cargo of iron ore pellets weighing about 26,100 tons, and it left from Superior, Wisconsin, heading to the steel mill on Zug Island .
Pin on Samuel Mather Interlake Steamship
1. The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. The large cargo vessels that roamed the five Great Lakes were known as lakers, and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was, at.
‘Empty lifejackets washing ashore’ The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
LAKE SUPERIOR - Forty-six years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was caught in the grip of a deadly storm on Lake Superior. Investigators would later say the Mighty Fitz's course had put her in.
The Edmund Fitzgerald Sinking40th Anniversary
This is my video of remembrance for the 29 men who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald. I could not find some photos of the crew. I do not own the song or photos..