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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 remains the largest to have sunk there.
Still to be found beneath the waves of Lake Superior are the wooden sidewheeler, Cumberland (1877); bulk freighter, Chester Congdon (1918); and the first 10,000-long-ton (10,000 t) Canadian wheat packet, Emperor (1947). Earlier, the Kamloops which "went missing" in 1927 was found on the northern shore of the island in 1977.
A World War II-era steamship that sank along with its captain in a strong storm in 1940 has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior after a 10-year search.
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
The wreck was discovered in 2021, but the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society spends time researching found vessels before going public with information about its discoveries.
This image provided by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the wreck of the bulk carrier Arlington, a merchant ship loaded with wheat that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on ...
The lake freighter sank during a storm on Lake Superior. The ship went down in 460 feet (140 m) of water about 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Deer Park in Luce County. All but one of the 23 members of the crew perished. Quincy Dredge Number Two United States: 1967
The recent discovery of wreckage more than 600 feet deep in Lake Superior solves one mystery of the SS Arlington, a 244-foot bulk carrier that sank in 1940. But another remains.