Edmund Fitzgerald

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a ship that tragically sunk in Michigans Lake Superior during a storm. A storm came up in the afternoon.

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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.

. Almost 36 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior taking its 29 crew members with her mystery still surrounds just what happened on. Similar November storm doomed the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. 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.

Quite literally the ship was barely able to pass. 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. Heres why the sinking remains an unsolved mystery.

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 Wreck of the. A storm nearly 50 years ago resulted in the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald a Great Lakes freighter that was.

On November 9 1975 the Edmund Fitzgerald pushed across the waters of Lake Superior with a cargo of iron ore. 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. She was located in deep water on November 14 1975 by a US.

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.

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