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The song chronicles the final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald as it succumbed to a massive late-season storm and sank in Lake Superior with the loss of all 29 crewmen. Lightfoot drew inspiration from news reports he gathered in the immediate aftermath, particularly "The Cruelest Month", published in Newsweek magazine's November 24, 1975, issue ...
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 remains the largest to have sunk there.
The album shot to popularity on the back of the haunting ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which told the story of the final hours of SS Edmund Fitzgerald which had sunk on Lake Superior in November 1975. The song remains popular to this day and has been credited with making the sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald the most famous maritime ...
Decades of fisheries management programs led to huge improvement in the number of lake trout, which were nearly wiped out in the Great Lakes.
Disappeared on Lake Superior on 1 December 1908. Edmund Fitzgerald United States: 10 November 1975 Sunk in a storm on Lake Superior, Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the largest ships to have sunk in the Great Lakes. The exact cause of the disaster has never been made clear, and has been the subject of much discussion.
Many central Oklahomans have come to know this lake by a filthy nickname. North of State Highway 9 in northeast Norman is Lake Thunderbird, or as many call it, "Dirty Bird."
For the next who weeks, the Hopkins floated about Lake Superior until October 17, 1911, when she was sighted by the freighter William E. Corey off Michigan Island. [104] Algonquin: Wooden schooner 1839 1874 After being laid up in 1874, she gradually filled with water and sank near Superior, Wisconsin. [105] Alice Craig: Wooden schooner 1857 1887
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