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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.
More than 70 ships have plunged to the bottom of the Great Lakes during November, among them was the S.S. Daniel J. Morrell, which went down in 1966 and claimed all but one crew member. Michigan ...
Ernest M. McSorley (September 29, 1912 – November 10, 1975) was the last captain of the lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald.Captain McSorley perished along with the other 28 members of his crew when the ship sank in the Canadian side of Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
Stories about the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald were on the front page of Detroit Free Press' Nov. 12, 1975 edition. The ship disappeared on Nov. 10 on Lake Superior and was later found ...
Launched on June 7, 1958, the Fitzgerald became the largest carrier on the Great Lakes until 1971, according to the National Weather Service in Mar 47 years later, remembering the Edmund ...
On November 11, 1975, the morning after the sinking, the crew of the Roger Blough recovered a 25-person life raft from the Edmund Fitzgerald. [ 6 ] She was stuck in the ice in Lake Erie near Conneaut, Ohio for eight days in February 1979 [ 7 ] and then was laid up from 1981 to 1987 due to the economy and the capacity of the newer 1,000 feet ...
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 marked a major turning point in the shipping industry. The Edmund Fitzgerald sinking is legendary. But the gales of November claimed many more ships.
Kristof was born in Laurel, Maryland, on November 19, 1942. [3]Kristof participated in multiple undersea expeditions with Canadian explorers Joseph MacInnis and Phil Nuytten, including the exploration of the Breadalbane, the world's northernmost known shipwreck, and the 1995 expedition to recover the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. [4]