Edmund Fitzgerald

Quite literally the ship was barely able to pass. Photograph of the Edmund Fitzgerald taken in May 1975 St.

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. On November 9 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald pushed across the waters of Lake Superior with a cargo of iron ore. When launched on June 7 1958 she was the largest ship on North Americas Great Lakes and she remains the largest to have sunk there. The Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

A storm nearly 50 years ago resulted in the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald a Great Lakes freighter that was. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a ship that tragically sunk in Michigans Lake Superior during a storm. Edmund Bacon Fitzgerald 1926 August 28 2013 was an American business executive from Wisconsin and was a key figure in bringing major league baseball back to Milwaukee in the.

The Wreck of the. She was located in deep water on November 14 1975 by a US. The Edmund Fitzgerald was one of the largest ships on the Great Lakes at the time measuring 729 feet long 39 feet tall and 75 feet wide.

A storm came up in the afternoon. Similar November storm doomed the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. Image courtesy of Bob Campbell Grand Ledge MI.

With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came. 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. The largest and longest vessel ever built on the Great Lakes the 729-foot ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald slides into the launching basin on June 7 1958 in Detroit Michigan.

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